But Mum
"But Mum!!!!!!" That phrase which brings a pit in the stomach of every mother. A nasal whine that comes almost automatically from a child's lips almost as soon as it starts to speak, when it wants to get its own way. The same emotional cry whether the child be six, sixteen or eighteen as today. This morning, a pretty petite teenage girl sits at the breakfast table across from her mother. A nice spring day and a now single mother with her child are on the patio, finishing breakfast...