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LOSING JERRY

Watching as my husband Jerry wowed a few of our friends with a magic card trick, I couldn’t help but laugh. Jerry was such a people person – he loved making everyone smile and thought nothing of producing a pack of playing cards, mid-conversation, to miraculously make someone’s chosen card end up stuck to the ceiling.

Jerry really was talented. An actor and singer, we’d met when we were both acting in the same West End theatre production, The Wood Demon, in 1997, and we got together four years later.

He was the kindest person I’d ever met and there wasn’t a day that he didn’t make me laugh. But in 2006, when our son Jack was still

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