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THE HONEYMOON IS OFF!

As my fiancé, Gareth, then 31, chatted away on the phone, I was up to my eyeballs in wedding prep.

Seating charts, table decorations, wedding favours - you name it, I still had tons of organising left to do.

Who was that?’ I asked Gareth, prying myself away from my endless to-do list.

‘It was the blood stem cell people,’ he told me.

‘They think I might be a match for someone!’

‘That’s amazing,’ I beamed.

Gareth had signed up to be a donor back in 2016 in the hopes that it could save someone with blood cancer’s life, and I knew just how much it meant to him.

When his dad was diagnosed with liver

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