A moment that changed me: water flowed into our boat – and my parents were at a total loss

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On an ordinary trip out in my father’s boat, we began taking in water. For once my mother could not comfort me and it felt as if life’s invisible chaos had become clear

Photograph: Tim Merrick/AlamyPhotograph: Tim Merrick/Alamyt wasn’t something you would think of as particularly grand – a white boat, the shape of an iron with a stripe down it, maybe a foot or two larger than an estate car. Named after my mother, it lived in a sort of car park for boats, where it rested high up on a trailer and a tractor would come to take it to the shore.

 

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