When mum became Covid-19 patient 62,567 after being warded in TTSH

Tan Tock Seng Hospital on April 30, 2021. ST PHOTO: TIMOTHY DAVID
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My mother is one of the strongest people I know.

But she has one vulnerability. She is afraid of the dark and of sleeping alone - a holdover from a difficult period in her younger days.

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