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The incompletion of melancholy

I write about ‘my depression’. But why so possessive? Because, every person’s depression is unique to them.   Steve Latham   To appropriate Tolstoy’s observation about families (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’), we are happy in the same way; we are […]

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Ordinary heroism

 Maria Fouillette, daughter of a butcher in a French town close to the border with Switzerland, was the mother of two children. Her husband Roger became leader of an anti-Nazi resistance group until he was arrested in 1943.   Sean Sheehan   Roger was brought, shackled and bruised, to his […]