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'Arriving home in the early morning I noticed that the blinds in the front room were pulled down. This was a common sign of a death in the house '

I had, until this period, no direct experience of the death of a close family member. At the age of seven my baby brother Brendan died, but we were protected by our parents from detailed knowledge of this tragic affair. Family lore has it that my…

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