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Jul 20Liked by Claire Venus

Brave and beautiful!!

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Thank you Claire xx

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Jun 19Liked by Claire Venus

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this!

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Such beautiful,moving words Claire 🧡

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I'll be celebrating 11 years married as well, in September. Congratulations!

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This is beautiful and very touching Claire. Thank you for sharing this intimate window into both of your journeys ❤️

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Goosebumps reading lovely. What a beautiful piece of your story to share. Xxx

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What an amazing tribute to your commitment to love and your husband💕

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❤️❤️❤️

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Jun 16Liked by Claire Venus

❤️❤️❤️

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Breathtaking writing, Claire. Awesome post.

❤️

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✨💥🥰 thank you love.

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Jun 16Liked by Claire Venus

This was gorgeous Claire 🩷🩷

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Thanks lovely ✨🌱

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So glad your husband is getting stronger. Thank you for writing this. It’s not easy to watch your loved one suffer, and know you can’t do anything to help, other than be there, lonely, as well. It’s the last day of carers week today. So this is so apt (even if you didn’t think of yourself as a carer, you probably were).

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Yeah I’ve never really embodied the title as I struggled to accept he was sick - even for this long… just kept hoping we’d wake up and it would be different. Thanks Jane! He’s doing much better now. ✨✨

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Yep, sounds familiar. I did that for 10+ years. I just thought of myself as his ‘helper’. It wasn’t until we were filling in a PIP benefit form that it dawned on me I was his carer. Scary to think there are millions of people doing the same thing. Working, and caring at the same time. It’s so hidden.

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“Life is multi-layered and complex and a thousand and one things are true all at once.” All if this. Beautiful words, Claire 💛

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Thanks lovely. Took a lot to get these out. ✨

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Wow, how love makes us stronger than we ever knew we could be.

So beautiful Claire, a piece of your heart on this page, so felt 💜

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That’s exactly it. Medicine I didn’t know I needed to love life more. ✨✨

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A love story ❤️ You are a strong woman and a loving one. You all deserve all the happiness each day can offer in the smallest of things and the enduring love you all share.

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Thanks Susan that’s super lovely of you to say. ✨✨

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