Pick Me Up!

Tell me it’s NOT TRUE

Pouring a pint, I leaned across the bar and passed it to the handsome stranger across from me.

‘Here you go,’ I blushed.

‘Thanks,’ he grinned. ‘Any chance I can get your number?’

I first met Peter Chesney, then 27, in 2007 when I was a barmaid in our hometown of Dagenham, Essex.

He was sweet and charming – I fell for him immediately.

On our first official date, he told me he was a single dad of two girls – Jodie, then six, and her big sister Lucy, then eight.

He wasn’t in contact with their mum, had sole custody.

‘Does that bother you?’ he asked apprehensively.

‘No,’ I smiled. ‘I’d love to meet them.’

I’d never really planned on having kids of my

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