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‘I’ve been shot... I’m pregnant!

Leona Brown, 40, east London

Browsing the aisles of TK Maxx, I picked up a tiny blue jumper. ‘Perfect,’ I smiled, stroking my bump.

It was March 2020, and me and my partner Tom, then 30, were shopping for our long-awaited baby boy.

We’d met online four years earlier. Tom had been new to the area, and after meeting in November 2016, we’d hit it off. He was tall, handsome, and I was mesmerised by his deep-brown eyes.

I was already a mum of four, so Tom moved in with me

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