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Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
16. I felt his posts were totally insensitive. He's consistent anyway.
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 04:57 PM
Aug 2013

So very sorry about your mum. My mother and I were downwinders from the US nuke tests, she was given DES to prevent miscarriage (causes cancer in the mothers, but daughters get the worst) and we were both exposed to chronic low-level mercury and pesticides living between two farms in the sixties and seventies. She died riddled with cancer, it was everywhere, and I know it was the culmination of all those things.

Hope you stay well!

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