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• Young and old help each other to thrive | Brief letters

  13-02-2024 18:58
  
  The beauty of Belong Chester | Sunday snooping | Boris Johnson’s service | Everyone’s an emeritusI read your feature on the Belong intergenerational community in Chester with absolute delight (Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery – and everyone thrived, 6 February). I am so pleased that somebody is taking the all‑important connection between old and young seriously, and making it work. As a teenager and twentysomething moons ago, I strongly felt
  
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• Intervals by Marianne Brooker review – a daughter’s angry and profound memorial to her mother

  13-02-2024 10:00
  
  The author’s singular account of her parent’s illness and decision to hasten her death is written with remarkable clarity and precisionIntervals is an exceptional book, for which every deserved superlative seems cliched, in part because the language of illness, death and bereavement often feels too hollowed out by use to accommodate the magnitude of those experiences. Frequently repeated words may gain a carapace that resists our scrutiny: take “dignity”, for example, whi
  
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