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I give people A Clean Start

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

As the front door opened, the smell of stale food and mould wafted up my nostrils.

‘We’re the cleaners,’ I said to the man from the insurance company.

‘Thanks for coming. You’ve got your work cut out here,’ he replied.

My mum Andrea was always fastidious about cleaning, so from an early age I was doing dishes and vacuuming. Never did I dream it’d become my career.

A single mum to Leon, now 26, in 2020 I was between jobs and doing a

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