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TROLLEY HORROR My brave girl’s battle

Pulling out my phone, I caught my 17-month-old daughter Millie’s first steps on camera as she toddled across the lounge room.

‘You’re getting so big sweetheart,’ I smiled, grabbing her for a cuddle.

With Millie and her big brother, Lincoln, three, spending three days a week at day care while I worked, I’d worried I’d miss the big milestone.

Arriving home from swimming lessons later that day, I wrote a grocery list of things we needed from the store.

Bread, milk, monster trucks for Lincoln, the list read.

‘You need

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