“Hello, Mum.”
“Hello, dear. I haven’t heard from you in ages.”
“I rang you last week.”
“Did you? I can’t remember.”
“It doesn’t matter. How are you?”
“Bored and lonely. I’m stuck in this room on my own all day. If they take me downstairs, they sit me with a load of old people who have dementia and nobody talks to me! They all just stare at me. I don’t have d…
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