A heart-stopping experience on a Viareggio beach... for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ One, listen to Small Girl Red Flowers by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald above.
It was on an Italian beach in the summer of 2002, under the dangerous blaze of the afternoon sun that for a short time, our daughter got lost.
A month away from her fourth birthday I still have a technicolour image of that version of her: the small swimsuit with a low-waisted frill and a red flower print. Her pale skin slathered in sunscreen, a little hat shading her face, her strong small stocky legs, always running...
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