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ATTACKED as I slept

As the nurse handed our baby girl Erin* to my husband Nezam, then 34, his eyes filled with tears.

‘I’m so happy,’ he beamed.

It was the happiest moment of my life too.

Maybe things will get better now, I told myself.

Nezam and I had grown up together as our families were close, and when I was 25 we got married.

At first things were great.

But years passed and Nezam couldn’t find work.

‘This isn’t the life I promised you,’ he sighed.

He began suffering with anxiety, and on top of that,

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