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Missing AT Christmas

Christine Durand keeps busy.

“I’ve got Steven’s photographs all over my living room. If I sit at home too long by myself that will get me very depressed,” she tells me over the phone from her home. “I try to keep busy so my mind’s not on Steven all the time, see? Because your mind wanders. At nighttime, that’s when I think about him a lot.”

Christine’s son went missing five years ago. Steven (above) lived in Preston, but was last seen in Manchester on 20 October 2018.

The five-year anniversary of his disappearance has not long passed and Christmas is approaching.

“It does get difficult at Christmas without – my son was called Steven, same as you, spelled the same as well – being here, but we manage. I’ve

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