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‘I’D CHOOSE YOU every day for the REST OF MY LIFE’

Carrying the last box of my belongings inside, I closed the front door behind me. Home sweet home...

I’d just finished studying at uni to become a teacher and bought my first house. But I soon realised my part-time position wasn’t enough.

One day, in April 2006, a family friend called Dawn got in touch. She worked as a personal care assistant for a patient named Chad, 27, who was in a wheelchair and lived a few blocks away.

‘He’s looking for

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