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I loved my gown, just not the body in it. But I had a plan to change that...

MAUD had been looking forward to finally getting her decorations out again. And now with a whole afternoon at her disposal she was really going to savour the experience and make it something special.

TESS was the mother of three grown-up sons. So she had imagined a wedding in the family, and pictured herself there, many times. She had seen herself in a floaty chiffon dress, possibly in mint green,

Mu-um! Mum! He’s done it again!’ screams Molly, my seven-going-on-17-year-old daughter. As if it’s not hard enough getting the two of them ready for school and out of the house in the morning! Quickly