Loss and Mother's Day: 'Life goes on but it will never be the same'

While Aoife Stokes was pregnant with her long-awaited first baby, her mum was undergoing treatment for stage 4 ovarian cancer. She is forever grateful that Edna lived long enough to help her through the challenging rite of passage into motherhood
Loss and Mother's Day: 'Life goes on but it will never be the same'

Edna and Aoife Stokes

“Ob-la-di, ob-la-da.”

I sing a lot these days — think the old lady from the Banshees of Inisherin with bigger eye bags — dancing around a suburban kitchen croaking out The Beatles.

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