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Tears

I don’t cry for effect. I can’t help them when they come. I’m full of water. And I’m not good with antagonistic situations, or dealing with shows of other peoples’ rage. I wind him up. Of course I do. We are close and share most of our waking hours. But yesterday I had not resolve and the coffee (he claimed) made him fight-y. In the end it was OK, it always is. We make it so.

Saying hello to the blow-up Santa helped to cheer me as did seeing a newly lit tree in the window of the insurance company on North Parade. The more the merrier. Give me light and lots of it, please.

By Ellen Bell

Artist and writer currently living in Aberystwyth.