Essentials South Africa

‘TO OUR GIRLS, HE’S JUST DADDY’

When I was 26 I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, so I gave my fiancé Michael an out. I said, ‘I don’t know what the future holds, but I completely understand if you don’t want to marry this potential future.’ By then, we’d been together for almost a decade. He said, ‘I’m going to be there and we will deal with this together.’ Michael promised to look after me but life had other plans. Two years later, when I was three months pregnant with twins, an aneurysm burst in Michael’s brain, leaving him unable

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