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When you’ve led a charmed life, I suppose it’s inevitable that it’ll fall apart at some point.

It happened to me after my mother died, though her death was the catalyst, not the cause.

Mum had been ill for a while and had come to terms with dying. She’d lived to see me happily married, and to meet her precious granddaughter. I thought we’d had time to say all the things that mattered.

When the end came it was peaceful, with her family gathered around, and I was holding her hand.

It was much later, while clearing out her bedroom, that I realised I hadn’t known my mother as well as I thought I had.

The one thing that really mattered had been left unsaid.