Too good to be true
Oct 07, 2021
4 minutes
Simon Deaton, 44, Chesterfield
Bacon sizzled in the pan as I sat with a mate at the kitchen table, planning a day mountain biking.
‘Coffee?’ my girlfriend Nicole, then 34, smiled, putting down a plate of fresh butties.
‘She’s a diamond,’ my mate grinned.
He was right.
Nicole and I had met online in April 2014.
At nearly 37, I’d almost given up hope of finding The One, settling down and having kids.
But when we got chatting, things felt different.
Nicole, a mum to two teenagers, was easy to talk to, made me laugh. And when we went for
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