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Laundry SAVED MY LIFE

Guzzling a bottle of Pepsi, I helped my son, Dylan, then 18, with his Year 12 schoolwork.

‘Good job,’ I smiled.

As Dylan has severe autism, I’d been homeschooling him for five years. I did my best for my son, but I was struggling.

A single parent, I battled depression and other mental health issues, which had left me housebound for the past eight years.

As a result, my weight had crept up, too. Weighing 280 kilos, I feared people’s

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