A birthday hug 58 YEARS IN THE MAKING!
Feb 12, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: KARA O’NEIL, JADE BEECROFT.
Flicking through a family photo album, Kim Armstrong, 58, pauses at a page filled with dog-eared black-and-white photographs of herself as a baby, in a pram being pushed by her mum, Elsie, and bouncing on the knee of her dad, Alex.
‘Elsie and Alex were my adoptive parents – they’d taken me in when I was six months old and raised me as their very own,’ Kim says.
‘I’d had the happiest childhood and wanted for nothing. My dad would often tell me, “We asked the children’s home for the nicest baby they had – and they gave us you!”’
Kim had
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