"When my mother was a small girl, her brother Joseph was run over by a car on the road at the ­bottom of their garden. She saw it happen, but what she remembers most clearly is my grandmother racing down the path, hands covered in flour from baking, sinking to her knees in the dirt and gathering her three-year-old son onto her lap."
"They will be reliant on neighbours and friends in the months and years ahead"
They will be reliant on neighbours and friends in the months and years ahead. A three-year-old boy named Joseph was run over by a car on the road at the bottom of the garden while his sister watched. The sister's clearest memory is of her grandmother racing down the path with hands covered in flour from baking. The grandmother sank to her knees in the dirt and gathered the injured child onto her lap. The scene conveys immediate, intimate caregiving and implies the central role of close family and local community support during sudden crises and recovery.
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