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As my family walked along the beach, I trailed behind. My stepdad, Richard, then 30, looked over his shoulder. ‘Come on, sweetie,’ he smiled, reaching to take my hand. It was 1992, and we were enjoying a family holiday in Cornwall. Aged 10, I absolut

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When my daughter Emma came home from school I noticed that her usually smiley face was crestfallen. It was 2012, and Emma, then 13, loved school. ‘What’s the matter?’ I asked her. ‘Some boys called me fat and threw Milky Ways at me,’ she replied, her

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On a blustery day, I stooped on the Tenby shoreline with my mum Valerie, then 36, beside me. She handed me a small bottle. Inside was a scrap of paper from a birthday party invitation. A note Mum had written for me, with our address on it along with

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In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to Jackie Koorn’s 10-year kick-boxing hobby, she turned to fitness and weightlifting instead. Pumping 40kg weights – just as a warm-up – she quickly built up her strength. ‘In three years, I became world

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Smiling at the gorgeous man across the table, I felt giddy. It was June 2008, I was 19, and on a first date with Hewton, 24, at our local Chinese restaurant. We had met at a construction site where I worked in the canteen and he was a labourer. Hewto

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Lifelong Birmingham FC fan Frank McKeever walked along a north London street with a spring in his step. It was August 2021 and it’d been a difficult year. Frank, 63, had been left devastated after losing his wife the year before. She’d been poorly fo