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IT’S THE LAST THING I EXPECTED

SHE felt a sense of déjà vu when her phone rang, followed by a wave of numbness when the voice on the other end said they had bad news.

Suddenly Belinda Walker was back in 2017, in that moment when she got a call informing her that her younger son, Codi, had passed away after being involved in a car accident.

Was it her older boy, Ashley, this time? Her husband, Patrick? Her son was safe – but Patrick, who’d been by her side for 27 years and suffered a parent’s worst nightmare alongside her, was gone.

The last time she saw Patrick was earlier that morning when he went

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