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LETTERS OF LOVE IN ISOLATION
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ
|August 17, 2020
A lockdown grandmother is smiling again because of the incredible kindness of strangers
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Canberra grandma-offour Barbara Murray was stunned when more than 600 letters flooded her mailbox after her daughter Trish made a heartfelt plea online to help her mum combat a sense of isolation.

“Mum moved into a lovely retirement village a year ago,” Trish, 50, tells
This story is from the August 17, 2020 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.
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