Linda says she became ‘fiercely protective' of her daughters after they lost their dad.
And, understandably, Linda felt overwhelmed by the task of parenting alone.
‘I ended up scrunching the handwritten rota into a ball and throwing it on the floor. Somehow we laugh about that now!’ ‘A year after Neil died, we went to South Africa to help children orphaned by Aids. Our job was to play with them and show them love,’ she says. ‘We did our best and that was good enough, I did not consider myself strong or “inspirational” as people insisted on saying, I just thought we had no choice but to keep going,’ she notes.
‘We lost their grandad and my best friend, Carol, who was my business partner too. More recently, their auntie, my sister-in-law on their dad’s side, died. And, this last year, my brother died after he spent 10 months in a coma after a car crash – at the same time, their grandma, thankfully now recovered, was hospitalised for weeks on end with heart failure and cancer.
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