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A STRANGER GOT US BOTH PREGNANT

Enjoying dinner and cocktails with my best friend Kelly, we reminisced about our school days. We couldn’t help laughing about how we’d been inseparable aged 14 and, all these years later, we were still the same.

‘SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND OF TWO DECADES’

As teenagers, we’d shared everything, from secrets to clothes. We tried out hairstyles and make-up together, and confided in each other about our boyfriend dilemmas.

With our petite figures, brunette locks and shared love of science, people used to say we were like twins. As years had passed, our lives had run parallel, too. We both studied scientific

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