Aoife Dunne on how losing her mother shaped her future

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In December 2010, as Ireland was blanketed in snow, 23-year-old Aoife Dunne was backpacking in South America. She was on a bus heading to Bolivia when her mobile rang. 

Expecting her mother, she answered with a cheery “Hi mom!”, only to hear the voice of a family friend who had devastating news to impart: “Your mom’s dead.” 

Dunne’s 53-year-old mother had died suddenly and unexpectedly from a rare, life-threatening condition in which a tear occurs in the wall of the aorta, the major artery to the heart.

Her father had left years before (she and he are now reconciled) so Dunne returned home to bury her mother and assume the role of de facto parent to her siblings. It is…

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