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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Steve Evans

How one daughter loves the mother who forgets her

Most days, Belle Hogg makes funny faces or sings to her mother, even though her mum rarely recognises her.

It's an act of love by a daughter to the woman she's known literally from birth but who in her early 70s is now in another world of dementia.

"I see little glimpses of her. Every now and then, you get these tiny, tiny windows of clarification where she'll suddenly use my name."

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