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‘MY BABY BOY GAVE ME STRENGTH TO KEEP GOING’

Staring at her four children, tears well up in Amanda Furner’s eyes. Five months ago, she lost her “bright and bubbly” little girl, after her rented SUV rolled back on top of her daughter as she lunged to save her.

“There’s an empty space in everyone’s hearts since she left us,” says the Melbourne mum, gazing down at the beautiful baby boy she gave birth to just weeks after Charlotte’s death.

“Losing Charlotte has been the most difficult and

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