Ellie wanted a high tea. We picked a sunny afternoon in spring, not long before her 12th birthday When I was about 12, I had my confirmation. I wore the same lacy white dress my terminally ill sister had worn two years earlier, with a red sash I had screen-printed at my Catholic school with a d...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/20/i-want-a-place-for-ritual-in-my-daughters-life-so-together-we-created-one)