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‘My sister and I were different SPECIES’

Two words sum up the look on my face as I meet my baby sister for the first time: mixed emotions. It was 1977 and I was three, sitting on my mum’s bed in Lewisham Hospital, south London, just after Emily had been born. I remember the air of excitement in that room and Mum beaming, partly because

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