Weeks after my eldest daughter was born, I went on a pram walk with her around our neighbourhood. My mother had died seven years before and my father three years before, so her birth had left me on an emotional high after many years of grieving. At one point on our walk, I heard “honks” of a goose loudly overhead.
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