Our Christmas LOVE STORIES
‘Dreams do come true’
Natalie Reeves Billing, 39, lives in Merseyside with husband Colin, 60, stepson Greg, 23, son Nathaniel, eight, and daughter Ellie Rose, seven.
The lights twinkled, Mum and I ate mince pies… but I felt I was just going through the motions. It was Christmas Eve 2010, and I couldn’t get excited.
In the early 2000s, I’d been in a rock band in the States, but our record label folded and I’d returned to the UK in 2005. Ever since, I’d lacked direction and, although I’d bought a city-centre flat in the hope of living the high
