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Mum's the word

“This month I’ll celebrate my 47th Mother’s Day,” I announced over tea and toast at breakfast.

The MOTH (Man of the House), who knows I have a fragile grip on all things mathematical, peered around the corner of his newspaper.

“You can’t be that old,” he said. I glared. “Actually, what I meant to say,” he added

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