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Watch: My Sister is Not a Statistic - a poem for the pandemic

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Via The Late Late Show on RTÉ One: Dorothy Duffy's poem My Sister is Not a Statistic is a moving tribute to her sister Rose 'Billy' Mitchell, from Ballina, Co. Mayo, who lost her life to Covid19 in a London nursing home - watch it above.

'My sister is not a statistic/Her underlying conditions were/Love/Kindness/Belief in the essential goodness of mankind/Uproarious laughter/Forgiveness/Compassion/A storyteller/A survivor/A comforter/A force of nature/And so much more.'

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