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Jennifer Horgan wonders what returning to normal really means

Pic: Larry Cummins

This week, I’m thinking about the word normal.

Is there really any such thing? My normal won’t be yours. When I was a little girl, a friend’s mum used to keep her money in their tumble dryer. It seemed perfectly normal at the time. Now, I wonder if she was afraid; she was a single mother, maybe in need of an easy get away. There is a lot we can miss if we get too stuck in accepting things as being normal.