Life after Veronica

In 2002 author Michael Quinn lost his 23-year-old daughter Veronica in a car crash. Here, he writes about spending another Christmas without her.

Life after Veronica

VERONICA is twenty-three, her degree course in Speech Therapy at Trinity College, Dublin just finished. The North Eastern Health Board has offered her a job in Navan. I have my old Toyota Carina serviced and give it to her.

Today is Wednesday, Sept 4, two days before she begins work. She has to go for a medical. It is one o’clock. I am planting bulbs for spring near our gate. Veronica stops the car for a moment as she drives out. She smiles at me.

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