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Reading poetry to my kids is a lifelong quest
Ten years on, I am still an HDB mother voicing verses
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Clara Chow
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It's been a decade (and three months) since I took my son to a playground to read him Arthur Yap's poem, 2 Mothers In A HDB Playground.
He was four then, still obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine; still pint-sized and cuddly at bedtime; still hanging on to my every recited word.
