Without my Mum: How to overcome the utter grief of losing your mother

By Emma Macdonald
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:53pm, first published April 18 2015 - 11:45pm

"The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her" – Author unknown. On March 8, 2005, Leigh Van Der Horst received a late-night visit from her mum at her home in the foothills of Victoria's Dandenongs.

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