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A reader offers a piece of wisdom from her late husband’s grandmother about loss and the important things in life
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Sir, Ron Wheeler (letter, Mar 14) might agree with my late husband’s grandmother who wrote (following the death of her youngest son in the First World War): “As you grow older you will find that ‘the things that matter’ are different, that they are fewer and that they matter a great deal more.”

Jenny Sinclair
Wrotham, Kent