Christmas REUNION
As Abby Murphy waved goodbye to her friends at the start of every Christmas holiday, she felt that familiar pang of jealousy.
‘They would pile into their cars with their brothers and sisters, while I went off home with just my mum, Barbara, now 52,’ Abby explains.
‘I envied their big families, always having someone to hang around with.’
Friends had started asking Abby questions about her family life in summer 2010, when she was 10 years old.
‘They’d constantly say things like, “Do you have a dad?“’ says Abby, who’s now 20.
‘And I’d always shrug my shoulders and
