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Annabel Fenwick Elliott
May 01, 2023
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Dear Jasper,

Apologies for the radio silence. 

That is the phrase that should probably go on my headstone. It is the story of my life. My most-used email first-liner. The thing I always have to say to people I know and love. I have been radio-silencing (i.e. vanishing for long periods, always without warning) for as long as I can remember.

Usually it is for mental health reasons (certainly when depression hits, but also very often because of the ADHD) but more recently it is because I am your mother, and now that you are crawling and standing and trying to eat electric cables and generally behaving in a earnestly suicidal manner, I literally have no time to myself. None. I am only able to type these words now because you are with a babysitter for the first time ever. 

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