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SCARRED for life DOING HOUSEWORK

Spraying the couch with the special product, I smiled up at my hubby.

‘I think we’re almost done here,’ I said.

It was July 2017, and David, then 34, and I ran a cleaning business doing other people’s housework.

And, today, we were waterproofing a client’s couch with a solution that would make it completely spill-proof.

As a busy mum to two beautiful boys, Eduardo, then 12, and João Miguel, two, I knew how hard it was to keep our couch clean.

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