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    TO THE RESCUE

    Jul 08, 2021 3 minutes

    Switching on the telly at around 10.30am, it was a cosy Sunday morning before Christmas, on 6 December 2020.

    I was with my daughter, Ellie, then six.

    My husband Patrick, 32, and our eldest daughter, Isabella, then nine, were upstairs doing some tutoring online.

    It was a pyjama day, and Ellie was munching on her peanut M&M’s – Patrick buys the kids a pack of sweets to have on the weekends as a treat.

    ‘Do you want a drink of anything?’ I asked her.

    Ellie shook her head and flashed me a

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