EDITOR’S WARNING
Ignoring all superstition, I hoped that scouring the internet for a cute black kitten would somehow bring us luck.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2017, I wanted to give my girls Aaliyah, now 11, and Tiana, now eight, some kind of comfort for when I would need to spend time in hospital.
Only, it was a plan that I had to come up with in secret as my partner Thomas, now 44, wasn’t the biggest fan of cats – but he didn’t need to know…
And after discovering a perfect little mongrel on Gumtree, later that month I found myself picking our new kitty up from a local
