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I’m Donna Ashworth

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WILD HOPE - SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER
LOSS, LOVE and LIFE - MY BESTSELLING ANTHOLOGY

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YOU

If every single person who has liked you in your lifetime, were to light up on a map, it would create the most glitteringly beautiful

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Illustration of teacher watering students with plants on their heads

TO A TEACHER

Thank you, to the teacherswho work harder than we seealways finding waysto turn learning into glee thank you, to the teacherswho see faces in their

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Lucy Campbell painting of girl holding ball of light

WILDLINGS

This goes out to the mamas,raising the wild ones,the not to be tamed,the rare,the reckless,and the precious… you are shaping stardustinto human formminding moonlighttill its

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Black and white photo of the night sky

YOUR SKY

I never truly noticed,how beautiful the sky is,until I started searching it for you. I never really appreciated,how sunlight bounces off the clouds sometimes,creating a

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Painting of women drinking wine on a wire by Ronald West art

YOU’RE NOT FOR EVERYONE

You’re not for everyonebut you are most definitelyfor someone and when you find yourself caughtin the trap of ‘people-pleasing’remind yourself quicklythat you are ‘people’ too

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Lucy Campbell boy and lion painting

MAN-UP

MAN-UP The world can be tough, for a boy who’s not rough, there’s much pressureto man-up and fight and the boys who shout loud,seem so

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Painting of woman with inner child by CM BURGOS

A FEARLESS GIRL

A FEARLESS GIRL I knew a fearless girlwho shook the whole damn worldwith her muddy knees and handsthat defiant way she’d stand she took everything

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Watercolour image of typewriter

WRITE ME DOWN

If one day I don’t remember, do not feel helpless.You will have much work to do.You must remember me enough for both of us.Write me

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Drawing of woman holding daughter by Donna Ashworth

LOVE CAME FIRST

Love came first… You don’t move on after loss, but you must move with. You must shake hands with grief, welcome her in, for she

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