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It was a week of tears in our house: tears over doughnuts on the way to school.

Colin Murphy.

It was a week of tears in our house: tears over doughnuts on the way to school, and over purple shoes on the way back. Determined not to be late the first two days in a row, I barked at the eldest as she fiddled with her socks in the doorway. “But I have to have doughnuts!” she roared, as she carefully rolled her white knee socks down around her ankles (rolling them ...