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PRECIOUS POPPY My girl’s like PORCELAIN

Lydia Grunwell, 34, Whakatane, New Zealand

At nine months old, my daughter Poppy was into everything.

Crawling wasn’t enough any more, and she’d just learned to pull herself up on the couch, grinning a proud, gummy smile as she did.

‘Well done, Poppy!’ her dad, Kane, then 35, and I would clap.

Then one day, she was performing her trick, when she fell backwards onto her bottom with a bump.

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