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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

‘My son Alexander walked out of the door with no wallet and only the clothes on his back. He never returned’

When Nerissa Tivy sees other people’s sons graduate or welcome a new baby, she smiles for them.

“But there’s a part of me that just sits there and thinks, oh my God, I’ll never see that with Alex now, never,” she says.

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