Forever Baby: Jenny’s Story - A Mother’s Diary

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Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 58 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 59 (#litres_trial_promo)

End note (#litres_trial_promo)

Names, Organisations and Acronyms (#litres_trial_promo)

Photographs – The way we are (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Author’s Notes (#ulink_5ac1c836-cd14-512e-8e24-4798745f34a7)

On Truth and Diary Writing

It might be assumed that what is written in a diary is true. What would be the point of recording an untrue account of the day’s events? (Unless of course you were a Machiavellian type with nefarious motives.) So yes, my diary is a true record of my day, each day, as it happened.

The truth. But not the whole truth; I’d be up all night if I set out to record everything that happened each day. A diary is a selective account - a moment can expand to pages when everything it meant is written down; long hours can be dismissed in a word, or less.

The truth. But not nothing but the truth. There’s what happened; and then there’s all the rest - how I felt about it, what I think it means, or could mean, for me, for others. Interpretation, elaboration, speculation, recrimination, extrapolation and commentary all embellish the event.

This is a true story, written day by day in my diary, volume twenty-one of thirty-seven (so far), but it is my truth, coloured by my perceptions of what was important for me to record, at that time, on that day. How I saw something then is not necessarily how it would appear to another observer, or how it would appear to me at another time. It is the truth of that moment.