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Subject matter The poet is writing to her mother, having seen a photo of her mother as a teenager: * She describes the photo of her mother standing laughing with two of her friends. * She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn't occur to her mother when young, when she was wrapped up in a world of dances and teenage dreams. * Now remembering her own childhood, the poet thinks of how she used to play with her mother's red shoes and imagines when her mother might have worn those shoes to meet a boyfriend in George Square. * She remembers how her mother used to teach her dance steps when she was a child - yet even back then, the young poet wished she could have known her mother when still young and carefree (before she became a mother). Language Read the poem carefully again and think...

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