Memory: Earliest Memories
My Mother returning from hospital with my baby sister
I remember that morning sitting in our kitchen with my grandmother looking after me. I was three weeks away from being 3 when my sister was born. I remember having rice crispies for my breakfast and a red plastic toy falling out of the box into my cereal bowl. I remember seeing an ambulance drawer up outside as I looked through our kitchen window. It was a grey October day. I remember my mother walking down the drive in her dressing gown and holding my baby sister. I don't remember the colour of her dressing gown or the baby's shawl or anything else that happened during that day or the days ahead but those pictures are very vivid in my mind.
Female, 39 English
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