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As my mum Monica, then 41, finished packing the car for a long journey, she turned her attention to me. ‘Have you been to the toilet yet?’ she asked.

‘Don’t need to,’ I shrugged. I know that sounds like a typical conversation parents have with their 5-year-old kids before setting off on a car journey.

If they didn’t, after 10 minutes the kids would be

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