Title: Little Steps

Author: Geoff Cochrane

In: Sport 8: Autumn 1992

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, March 1992, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 8: Autumn 1992

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'Have some pickle,' Ann jokes.

'Bloody salads.'

'Shush you yo' mouth. Bloody salads are good for you.'

'Been slaving away then, too, over a gelid refrigerator all day?'

'As a matter of fact these salads are a jolly pain to prepare, Here's poor wee Clare. Hello, darling.'

She lifts the child to her knee.

'It suits you, this motherhood,' I say.

There is a simplicity in Ann, a grace which admits this freely enough. She thrusts her jaw forward playfully.

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'Yes, brother. I've enjoyed it,' she says as if of something done, some- where visited now receding in her path. Is her marriage in trouble? I know so. My acceptance of the fact must come from without, from the evidence her changing circumstances will in time provide, signalled across an ocean.

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