Pick Me Up! Special

THE FIRST MOVE

Watching on as my mum, Janet, painted another china cup, I was in awe of her.

Artistic, she loved painting and holding parties to sell some of her beautiful work.

It’s one of the finest memories I have of her.

Unfortunately, when I was seven, she was diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time.

She’d first suffered from it when pregnant with me, but she’d been in remission ever

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