Three women share what it is like to witness a parent die - and then lose the other when a step-parent arrives on the scene.
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"It had pretty much just happened because the machines were still on so we literally just missed it," she says. "I remember feeling excited and thinking 'this will be great'. I didn't have a sister and she had a daughter the same age as me."Tears followed. Her dad didn't mind, she says. Far from that, he"kissed and groped" his new partner in front of everyone.Catherine's relationship with her stepmum reached breaking point when she was 15. It was Father's Day and they were arguing.
"You feel like you are clinging on to other families and people are kind but you always feel like the odd one out."And literally when my mum died it was a completely different life... and from that time on we all did that we had to do to survive, and that for me would be spending as much time out of the house as possible."The then 18-year-old had almost no contact with her father for the next six years, when she received news he'd got cancer too.
She turned to drink and drug-taking, something she believes is quite common for bereaved young people to do in a"life-affirming sort of way". "I don't think I felt angry; part of me felt relieved she didn't give me much attention because I would have the freedom of doing what I wanted.She says her children are"the best thing in my life"
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