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Shine on little Star

Bouncing my smiling greatgranddaughter on my knee, I sang to Baby Shark.

‘Grandma Shark doo doo do doo do do.’

Star, then 10 months, giggled, her blue eyes lit up.

Just then, I heard the door.

‘How's my girl?’ my partner David, then 59, cooed, back home from his postie job.

Star reached her arms up for a cuddle.

It was February 2020, and Star had recently come to live with us.

Her mum, our granddaughter Frankie, then 18, was having a tricky time and we were pleased to help.

Frankie had lived with us once too, as a teenager.

I'd taught her to cook her fave Sunday roast, biscuits and buns.

Frankie fell pregnant

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