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Mary Wakefield

There’s no need to tell children about terrorists

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

Saturday evening in Durham. My in-laws and I had just begun our usual postprandial shout about Donald Trump when my niece appeared at the door, pale and serious. ‘There’s been another terrorist attack in London,’ she said. ‘I’m scared.’

The veins of the men in my husband’s family run with a sort of event-activated coolant.

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