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MY HEART BLEEDS EVERY DAY

SHE’S well known for her bubbly personality and mile-wide smile but there’s nothing cheerful about her today.

It’s been five weeks since singer and TV personality Patricia Lewis’ mother died and the star has been struggling to cope with the void her passing has left behind.

Linda Lewis, Patricia’s rock and best friend, died at 78 of Alzheimer’s disease and the grief is intensified by the toll the illness took on her mother. By the end, she was unable to speak.

“She couldn’t greet me like she usually did with, ‘Hello, my precious darling’. She tried, but she couldn’t manage more than an incoherent mumble,” Patricia says.

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