'Thank goodness Mother's Day is over!'
"Thank God that's over," said a friend, after Mother's Day finally came and went. I know what she means.
Like me, she no longer has a mum, and it doesn't get any easier. So the long build-up to Mother's day - endless adverts with perfect, grinning mums - is painful. Then there's Facebook; all that "feeling blessed" with "the world's best mum."
Can't Mothering Sunday just be celebrated quietly? Then the rest of us can be left to endure it, until it's over for another year.
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