Jennifer Horgan: I’m making my attic a manageable past for my children to inherit
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A statue of Virginia Woolf, which sits alongside the River Thames in Richmond, London.
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We are both dopey levels of sentimental. We carted piles of papers, ticket stubs, essays, letters and photographs into our marriage. So, you can imagine what we’ve gathered since having three children. It’s verging on the macabre. We’ve kept everything: locks of hair, hospital bracelets, first shoes and, of course, their ‘art.’ The ‘art’ takes up A LOT of space. But it’s all important to me, worth more than the high heel shoes I no longer wear, and the dresses I should never have bought in the first place.