The mother my daughter will never know

The Guardian – 23rd August 2014

Andrew Quew got home from work one evening to find his wife’s body on the kitchen floor – she’d collapsed and died suddenly. Their two-year-old daughter, Caitlin, had spent the rest of the day playing beside her

The last morning the Quews would ever wake up as a family of three was much like every other. Two-year-old Caitlin was out of bed first, and her mother, Gemma, 30, got up too. Her husband, Andrew, stayed under the duvet as long as he could and then rushed to get to work. “I kissed her and Caitlin goodbye and headed off,” he says. “Nothing in the world would have made me believe I was closing the door on life as I knew it.”

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