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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is me and my daughter Rebecca who was first diagnosed with ME at the age of nine.<span> </span><span> </span>It’s a cruel and isolating condition.<span> </span>Rebecca’s school years were punctuated by long absences during which she was house-bound (and often bed-bound).<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She’s now 21 and working full-time as a Dispenser in a pharmacy.</span></span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">AYME (pronounced ‘aim’) is an online community for children and young people with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. <span> </span>It provides a forum where they can contact and support others like themselves.<span> </span>Above all, it gave Rebecca a real confidence boost just to talk to others who are going through what she did.</span></span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All funds raised will help ensure that other young people have access to the services and benefits that have been such a great source of support to Rebecca.</span></span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for helping.</span></span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stuart</span></span></div>
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