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Laurel HiltonLaurel Hilton

Laurel Hilton is a Mother of Two, Recovering Texan and Director of Badassery at Ash Hilton Jewellery. She enjoys falling asleep watching true crime documentaries and building forts out of clean, but not yet folded laundry.

‘Who killed Cool Papa?’ Talking to my child about my father’s death

7 November 2017 by Laurel Hilton

An essay about being a daughter, being a parent, and protecting your future self from the past. By Laurel Hilton. We were driving round the bend in a 100 km/h zone. It was roughly in the vicinity where I did my driving test as a very pregnant 32 year-old, graduating from a Texan to New … Read more

Categories Featured, Parents Tags Death, fatherhood, Fathers, Parenting, Suicide

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