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SCAMMED OUT OF HER 34 LIFE SAVINGS

With three grown-up kids and retired from a successful career in nursing, Marcel Blanch de-Wilt hoped his mum, Marjan, would at last make time for herself.

“My parents divorced when I was 3, so she raised us boys,” Marcel, 31, tells New Idea. “She was happy and independent, but companionship was an aspiration.”

Unsurprisingly Marjan, 69, didn’t discuss her dating life with her sons. However, in March this year she mentioned to Marcel there might be someone special.

“She said she’d met someone and he might be back

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