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DON’T BE CRUEL

Watching a woman lift her giggling daughter into the air and swing her around, I felt a dagger in my heart.

That unbreakable mother-daughter bond was something I desperately longed for.

Back home, I broke down in tears to my husband Naffi, 42.

‘It’ll happen for us one day,’ he lovingly soothed.

But when?

It was 2016, and we’d already been trying for a baby for well over a year.

Ever since we got married in August 2015, starting a family had been all we’d wanted.

That’s what you do, isn’t it? Fall in love, get married, have babies.

But for us, it hadn’t worked out that way.

Back and forth to the doctors, they said we could

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