Pick Me Up! Special

NO TIME TO WASTE

Dear Mark,

From the first moment I met you, I knew you really were a superhero.

Out with my mates at a bar back in 2009, you’d swooped in with your dashing good looks and offered to buy me a drink.

A single mum to two kids, Elise, then nine, and Harley, two – I wasn’t really looking for a relationship.

Still, your charm made me wobble at the knees.

I didn’t think I’d see you after that moment, but it seemed you were determined to make it happen again.

You found me on Facebook, and I have to admit, I had blushed when your message popped up.

How are you? you’d asked.

We continued to chat from then on – and we just clicked.

I told you all about the kids, and you told me all about your son Sam, then five.

We had so much in

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