Are you ready for this?” I asked Nigel, my golden retriever, as I waved from the bay window to the young woman at the kerb. She stood unloading her toddler from her car. My son planned to marry finall

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As Sarah and the children adjust to life in their new home, a neighbour’s kindness may be just what they need to feel they truly belong