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MUM SENT ME A HUBBY from heaven!

Therese Mavros, 51, Melbourne, Vic

It was the dreaded word I’d desperately been hoping I wouldn’t hear.

‘It’s ovarian cancer,’ the doctor said.

My gorgeous mum, Elizabeth, then 68, radiated happiness and lived every moment to the fullest. Now, her future was so uncertain.

We’d always been close, and, as I grew into adulthood, we had become less like mother and daughter and more like friends, often collapsing into uncontrollable giggles.

Being predominantly single my whole life, I’d laugh with Mum about bad dates

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