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So we were sitting around the table doing and saying nothing when my aunty suddenly turns to me and says "You really have matured so much in the last two years. You're almost a different person"

My mum twitches. And then she looks at me [sadly?] and replies

"But she paid for it. She paid the highest price."

Mums always know.

Here's to 2010 and the New Year. Let there not be so many lessons.