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Tue 09 Sep 2008Haunted by a pregnancy in the past
GIVE ME A BREAK:Having given birth in secret as an 'unmarried mother', a friend now wants to meet her child. But could her husband and other children cope with the revelation?
I KNEW MY friend for many years before she shared with me the secret turmoil that has dominated her inner life - a secret that has come between herself and her children, between herself and her husband and between herself and her parents - a Berlin Wall of emotion that no one in the family, including herself, has ever dared breech, so that her family have never really known her.
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