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Samuel Port

Leeds man's response after date diagnosed with terminal cancer told him 'you need to leave me'

A Leeds man stuck by his partner during her “frightening” five-year cancer journey after only dating her for a month.

Andrew Archer, 53, began dating Emily Barrass, 51, in July, 2018, and in the following month Emily told him she’d been diagnosed with cervical cancer. She told him to leave her and live his life, warning him of how tough the remainder of her life would become – but Andrew wasn’t having any of it.

He’d fallen in love with her and that was that. On that day, he made a promise to her. He promised to stick by her side to the very end.

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