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Mel Symons ‘MY DAUGHTER KEPT ME GOING’

This upcoming Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14, will be a bittersweet time for Melanie Symons, just as it is every year. The Aussie television presenter, 48, had only just welcomed her daughter, Alexandra, into the world in 2016 when she lost her own mother, Robyn, tragically and unexpectedly. “Mum’s birthday was early May as well, so it’s always a hard time as her birthday and Mother’s Day come up,” the Sydney Weekender host tells WHO.

When Alexandra was just a few months old, Symons was struck down with the flu, and Robyn insisted on travelling to her daughter’s home in Byron Bay to lend a hand. “We’d all had dinner

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