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    My first Christmas as A WIDOW

    Dec 05, 2019 3 minutes
    AS TOLD TO STEPHANIE NIMMO
    Sharing past
    Christmases with
    Steve and the boys.

    My late husband Steve always loved Christmas. He totally embraced the season, even dressing up as Santa for the kids on Christmas morning.

    Now Christmas is filled with poignancy for me and our two boys, Spike, 14, and Barney, 12, as we remember all the wonderful times we had as a family of four, when Steve was still alive.

    I trained as a nurse and met Steve when I was 28. We moved to

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