It was true that dad was having health problems and his business was struggling, but as a teenager that meant nothing to me. ![]() ![]() I could tell she’d practised this little speech in her head. ‘I know it’s hard but that’s life and it won’t do you any harm to go without for once.’ ‘Your father is sick, there is no money coming in and we can’t afford to buy you girls anything this year,’ she announced one Sunday evening in December. Looking back, I couldn’t have been more than 14 when my mother announced that she was cancelling Christmas – or at least Christmas presents. ![]() Marianne says she couldn't have been more than 14 when her mother announced that she was cancelling Christmas presents
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