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Killed for kindness

TRUE-LIFE

Music blared and drinks flowed as I got ready for a night out with my friends – and my mum.

‘What do I wear, girls?’ she asked as I wrapped her hair around a curling iron.

‘One of my dresses,’ I grinned to her.

It was early 2013, I was 19 and my mum Michelle Hanson was 37.

But boy, did she know how to party!

I did her make-up, gave her a sparkly blue dress to wear, then we hit the club – where Mum was first on the dance floor.

‘Come on you lot!’ she called over to us.

I was lucky to have her.

She was the life and soul

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