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Just a week and a day

Slumping on the sofa, my sister, Leanne Wainwright, sighed with exhaustion.

‘I'm so tired,’ she groaned.

It was November 2021, and she had a week off from work as clerical assistant in the eye department of Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

‘I'm going to sit here and watch Christmas films every day,’ Leanne, 39, said.

I frowned.

Christmas was Leanne's favourite time of year.

She had more festive jumpers than normal ones.

Even her little Shih Tzu, Peanut, aged 4, had one!

Leanne was a social butterfly, and as the season got into swing she was usually out, mulled wine in hand.

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