Rutherglen writer shares hope with others through experience of her brother's final journey

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A Rutherglen woman’s account about her experience on the day her brother died has been published online as a story of hope.Dorothy Connor was asked by the Scottish Book Trust to submit 1000 words for Scotland’s Stories of Hope 2024.

The former journalist is a long-term supporter of their work and has sent stories and poems to them before.Her brother John Douglas Connor, who was known to all in the family as Douglas, died suddenly three years ago, and while Dorothy wasn’t with him physically when he died she is convinced there were signs all around that connected the siblings in a shared experience.Those signs, too many to be coincidences, are documented in Dorothy’s story – Travels In Time and Space – which recalls the fine details of that eventful day, including specific times that would turn out to be of particular significance.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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I looked at the clock and five minutes later, hours had passed. It had been happening for a few days.”From a dream the night before to the last message she received on her phone from her brother that day, to the police officer arriving at her front door to break the tragic news, and what happened afterwards, it’s all laid bare in Dorothy’s