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Requiem for my atheist mother

Country Mouse

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I have been charged with organising the order of service for a forthcoming funeral.

It's a task that has forced me to concentrate the mind – and by so doing has thrown me into confusion. The departed one was a committed atheist and there are so many aspects of conventional religious ceremonies that I have enjoyed in life and instinctively want to include.

As a child and young man, when chapel was compulsory at my boarding schools, I responded to the language, aspects

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