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Saman Javed

Dame Deborah James tells her children to ‘take chances’ and ‘marry only for love’ in last letter before death

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Dame Deborah James shared some heartfelt advice in a letter for her children before her death.

The cancer campaigner and podcast host died in June aged 4, six years after being diagnosed with bowel cancer.

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