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NO CRUISE? NO WORRIES!

Cheers!’ we grinned, clinking our glasses together. Six of us, all hardworking mums, were enjoying cocktails on board a beautiful cruise liner.

Most of us have known each other for close to 40 years, and we all live within 10 kilometres of each other.

Now, here we were, having a well-deserved girls’ trip away without our kids or partners.

There was my sister-in-law Sandra, a mum of three, who works in the office at the local high school, and Kath,

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