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Bouncing on the trampoline in our garden, my son Ryan, 12, got higher and higher with every boing.

‘Careful,’ I laughed, as his sisters waited their turn.

I thought back to Ryan as a toddler.

Desperate to scramble up to the trampoline but not quite big enough.

‘Seems like only yesterday,’ I said to my husband Mike.

It was March 2022, and Ryan was now a healthy, energetic young lad.

Full of giggles, he'd be ambushing us with his Nerf gun one moment, reeling off facts about his favourite Pokémon the next.

‘Look what I caught,’ he said later that day, showing me his latest Pokémon Go catch on his

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