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Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

A dying wish

I wish my mother was dead. That’s something many of us have said at some time or other when our mother has seriously annoyed us – most probably when we were teenagers.

But this time I mean it. I wish Elis Nissen was dead and that we had given her a lovely send-off, with wine, good food and funny speeches.

But she lives. After having multiple strokes,

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