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PROUD TO BE...

‘IT’S FINALLY ALL ABOUT ME’

Clare O’Reilly is a journalist who lives in Plymouth with husband, Jon, and three children, Eddie, 15, Sammy, 11, and Annie, eight.

As someone who spent her first four decades desperately trying to fit in, the day I hit 40 felt like an epiphany – like I had finally arrived.

I’d met Jon at 23, and my 20s and 30s were spent raising our children and trying to establish a career and financial security. I was working excessively

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