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TRUE SPIRIT

Lisa Galloway, 44, from West Lothian

Looking at the gifts stacked under the tree, I tried to get my two-year-old excited.

‘Archie, it’s time for presents!’ I said, eagerly.

But Archie just shook his head, laying down on the sofa.

It really wasn’t the kind of Christmas we’d expected.

It was 2019, and our first Christmas as a family of four.

‘I don’t understand what’s wrong,’ I said worryingly to my husband Andi, 45.

I’d imagined Archie ripping open his stocking and helping his little sister Leah, then nine months, open her gifts.

It was so unusual to see him like this – he was such a hyper, energetic little boy who always had a massive smile on

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