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22:00, 19 NOV 2023

'I was over at my friend's house and a man attacked me — only one thing stopped me ending my life as a result'

Real Life It would take decades before Sera Cracroft realised the full extent of the attack and the impact it had on her, affecting both her mental health and relationship with others

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'I was given two years to live but have surpassed expectations – now the cancer has spread to my brain'

Luke Thomas was given an incurable cancer diagnosis in 2019 but has lived with no evidence of the disease for the last three years

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'We face watching our daughter die needlessly because the drugs that would save her aren't "value for money"'

Delilah Perkins was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was a few weeks old and her parents have been told from that point she would one day get the lifesaving drugs

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Young dad dies suddenly in bed weeks after fiancée gave birth to their second child

'I want him to be remembered for what he used to do — it was always everybody before him and he was so marvellous with my two girls'

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‘Our son went from being a perfectly normal little boy to doctors telling us he could die in his teens’

Caleb McCarthy randomly started suffering from seizures overnight in August 2019, leading to numerous scans and operations, but he is still having around 10 seizures a day

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'I have to work 40 hours a week in two jobs as a uni student on top of my degree due to the cost of living crisis'

Olivia Wray works at a nursery as well as earning money from a laundry job

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My goodbye letter to the people I love as brain cancer slowly shuts off my body

'However wide or narrow, I’m glad our paths in life crossed. Thank you for sharing your time with me.'

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