Karen Teasdale-Robson has fulfilled a promise to her father to make sure the world would hear the lullaby he wrote for her nearly 60 years ago. Her father, Brian Teasdale, wrote the song, Little Girl, when she was nine months old, and sang it to her whenever she was sad. The song became even more meaningful when an assault by his own son left him with brain damage, leading Karen to believe that she would never hear him sing again. But after discovering an ageing, brown reel-to-reel tape recording of the lullaby, Karen found someone who could record a new version of the song, which was later put into a teddy bear.
Karen’s father was a poet and musician, but he lost the ability to communicate beyond one or two words at a time and could no longer write after the assault. Karen had to teach him how to speak again and tried to help him in any way she could. Her father was moved to a specialist residential brain injury unit in 2012, where Karen visited him every day. When he died after nearly a decade in the facility, Karen was left with only the song her father wrote for
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