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  • Pick Me Up!

    PROMISE I MADE

    Sep 01, 2022 5 minutes

    Cutting up veg for dinner, I started bopping as a song came on the radio. I love this one, I thought as I hummed.

    Girls Aloud were one of my favourite bands – I loved them on Popstars: The Rivals back in the day, and I’d seen them live.

    I danced around the kitchen, singing along to Sound of the Underground as I finished making tea before my kids Eva, 15, and Charlie, 12, got home from school.

    That night, back in September last year, I was sitting watching TV with my husband Rob, 38, when the news came on.

    ‘Sarah Harding has passed away after a battle with breast cancer,’ the newsreader said.

    My hand flew to my mouth.

    She was only 39.

    I knew she’d been sick, but it

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