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    NO ARMS, BUT I CAN FLY A PLANE & drink cocktails!

    Mar 26, 2020 3 minutes
    As told to Amber Wemyss

    Sitting on the swing in the school playground, I imagined myself soaring through the sky.

    While all the other kids were taking turns on the monkey bars and the slippery slide, I’d been told it was too dangerous for me.

    Aged five, I was frustrated at being left out.

    When I was born without arms, my parents, Inez and William, had been shocked.

    It hadn’t showed up in scans, and though doctors couldn’t determine why my limbs hadn’t formed in the womb, they

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