Leaving heart and home: when your house of memories becomes someone else's | Paul Daley

It’s almost time to go now from this cocoon that’s been ours for almost two decades: an archive of elation and celebration, of sorrow and disappointment

My father was never much given to sentiment, nostalgia, spiritualism or superstition.

He was practical and prosaic in belief and taste. In his last years he continued to attend church mainly because he had always done so and, I suspect, to have done otherwise would’ve necessitated an explanation to my excessively churchy mother.

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