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Road to recovery

Gabriella Gratrix, 49, Great Eccleston

Sitting in front of a mirror, I took a deep breath as I heard the buzz of the razor.

‘Here we go,’ my partner Chris, then 42, said.

It was March 2017 and I was starting chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Doctors said I’d definitely lose my long, brunette hair.

So I wanted to take control. It seemed the only thing left I had control over.

See, Chris and I had been poised to jet off on

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