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Smiling HIGH

We all have a secret soft spot for certain baby pictures of our children, and one of Sue Maughan’s favourites is a photo of her son Dan, taken as he lay across her shoulder.

‘He’s three months old in the picture, and so cute,’ says Sue, 54, a school alumni coordinator from Radlett, Hertfordshire. ‘But I knew, when the picture was taken, that it was the last time he would ever look like that.’

Dan had been born with a cleft palate and his top lip split in two

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