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In the spring of 1969, when I was 10, I became aware that my father was unwell. He spoke to us about the difficulty he was having eating his food. The doctor diagnosed an ulcer and then a hernia which needed an operation. He went to London for the operation and when he came back there was a more somber mood around the house. I must have gathered that he was very ill, although nobody told me this and I didn’t really acknowledge it to myself. I didn’t know he had cancer or what cancer was until after he died in June of that year at the age of 46. His death didn’t bring our family close together in the way such events can.
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Hayler, M. (2011). Conducting the Research. In: Hayler, M. (eds) Autoethnography, Self-Narrative and Teacher Education. Studies in Professional Life and Work, vol 5. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-672-4_3
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