My Real Children

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  • The
  • day
  • Mark
  • called,
  • Patricia
  • Cowan’s
  • world
  • split
  • in
  • two.The
  • phone
  • call. His
  • question. Her
  • answer. A
  • single
  • word. ‘Yes.’ ‘No.’It
  • is
  • 2015
  • and
  • Patricia
  • Cowan
  • is
  • very
  • old.
  • ‘Confused
  • today’
  • read
  • the
  • notes
  • clipped
  • to
  • the
  • end
  • of
  • her
  • bed.
  • Her
  • childhood,
  • her
  • years
  • at
  • Oxford
  • during
  • the
  • Second
  • World
  • War
  • those
  • things
  • are
  • solid
  • in
  • her
  • memory.
  • Then
  • that
  • phone
  • call
  • and…her
  • memory
  • splits
  • in
  • two.She
  • was
  • Trish,
  • a
  • housewife
  • and
  • mother
  • of
  • four. She
  • was
  • Pat,
  • a
  • successful
  • travel
  • writer
  • and
  • mother
  • of
  • three.She
  • remembers
  • living
  • her
  • life
  • as
  • both
  • women,
  • so
  • very
  • clearly.
  • Which
  • memory
  • is
  • real
  • or
  • are
  • both
  • just
  • tricks
  • of
  • time
  • and
  • light?My
  • Real
  • Children
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • both
  • of
  • Patricia
  • Cowan’s
  • lives
  • each
  • with
  • its
  • loves
  • and
  • losses,
  • sorrows
  • and
  • triumphs,
  • its
  • possible
  • consequences.
  • It
  • is
  • a
  • novel
  • about
  • how
  • every
  • life
  • means
  • the
  • entire world.
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