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war's fallen women

A 100-year-old shoe box holds the secrets of lonely war time mothers of illegitimate children

Unearthed in the Scottish Highlands, an old shoe box contained  letters from a generation of lonely and desperate illegitimate mothers confiding in an agony aunt who was not what she seemed

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It’s completely heartbreaking to hear your child say: ‘I don’t want to live anymore’
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