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I took up my sister’s offer to visit her in Indiana – where my life all came together, says the author Rosemary Mac Cabe

The journalist’s account of discovering herself via her love life is never less than readable

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We really never know what’s coming; three years ago I was happily living in Dublin. Now I’m married in the US with two stepsons and a baby; although it still feels like home, just 3,600 miles away

Late Mary Hayes (née Mac Cabe), Sherwood Avenue, Galway City, Galway and formerly of Ballymahon, Co Longford

There is a young woman, wrong, there is not. She’s not yet an adult, but she’s not still a child. She’s in her teens. She wants to consider herself an adult, let it be that she’s accorded that. Begin again. There is a young adult sitting beneath a tree under a grey-blue sky. There may be a seven-week-old foetus buried inside her, there may be not. What’s to be said about the tree? Well, first, this is no wind-shook sapling. It’s immense, measured against the young adult, who’s no ...