Marni’s beautiful babies helped her through the grief of losing her beloved mum midway through the pregnancy
Marni Cochrane, 43, Merrimac, Qld
Placing a record onto the turntable, my mum, Helen, and dad, Reinhold, slowdanced to the music. At four years old, it was my first memory.
Mum was a huge music lover.
‘I went to see the Beatles perform when I was 18 and it was amazing,’ she recalled. ‘Us girls couldn’t stop screaming!’
She’d play my older brother Eli and me Beatles’ songs. ‘This is my favourite one,’ she said, singing along. ‘Blackbird singing in the