I’m pretty sure I watched Love Island before my eldest daughter was born. I was heavily pregnant and couldn’t sleep. It was hot that summer of 2013. I was enormous and had feet like basketballs. I was overjoyed to be pregnant but also nervous. Any twinge and I would sit bolt upright and interrogate my symptoms.
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