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Snuggling up on the sofa, everyone was glued to the telly.
My daughters Ella, now eight, and Priya, five, giggled along to Lilo & Stitch.
Ella was a Stitch superfan – her bed was covered in Stitch toys and cushions.
‘You might as well be Stitch!’ I laughed.
After all, she was dressed in her matching Stitch tracksuit and slippers.
Ever since she was little, Ella had always loved Disney.
‘Ohana means family,’ Ella would say along with her favourite film.
But for me and my partner Antony, 25, Lilo & Stitch’s main message had always been especially close to our hearts.
When Ella was 10 months old, she experienced sudden heart failure in October 2016.
At first, the doctors thought that her left heart ventricle was abnormally enlarged.
But in June the following year, she