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Radio 4,5 mins

'You miss the way she smells, you want to hold her'.

Woman's Hour

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Losing your mother is a very difficult experience. It's especially hard at this time of year when we are bombarded with all the advertising and marketing ahead of Mother’s Day. Three women who attended a symposium called Motherless Daughters which aims to get women to open up about their loss and the impact it's had on them shared their stories with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour reporter Georgina Hewes.

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