FOREVER YOUNG

Jordan Bradbury, 31, Nottingham

When we first became friends, I remember asking Dan why his dad wasn’t around – he told me he passed away when he was 11 – but he didn’t say how.

Dan’s dad had Alzheimer’s, but it was something we didn’t discover until much later.

I thought he was just tired of his job

It never entered my mind that he might develop it – especially not at the age of 30.

I met Dan in 2006, when we worked together in Matalan.

I was 17 and he was 18.

We immediately hit it off and quickly became friends.

I fancied him straight away,