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Dispatches from real life. I'm 47 and a mother of four, the youngest of whom is a couple of months old and conceived with the help of a donor egg. I write for a living. I also like cooking, dancing, and going to gigs.

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Grace Ackroyd

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I write about life to try and understand it better