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MY BEST DECADE YET!

The best present I received for my 50th wasn’t anything expensive or flashy, but it meant the world to me: a pair of skinny jeans. Stepping out in them for the first time on my birthday night, I’d never walked so tall. They were something I’d always yearned to own – and now, not only was I wearing a pair, I was rocking them confidently in a size 10! There had been a moment before leaving the house when I’d caught myself in the mirror and marvelled at how different this milestone birthday felt to how I’d imagined. It seemed like the start of an exciting new chapter in my life, after years of feeling

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