THE NEW ME!

As the music vibrated through the bar, I moved my body to the beat. ‘Having a good time?’ my best friend Patrice, then 38, asked.

I smiled and nodded. My job as an emergency care assistant working with paramedics was exhausting and hard, so a night out with a friend was my perfect way to relax.

I was about to say as much when a good-looking man across the other side of the bar caught my eye. Tall with thick, dark-brown hair and sparkling blue eyes, he started weaving his way through the crowds towards