Years on, I still can’t find the words to describe the loss of my gorgeous Auntie Migs. This should never happen again and that’s the best inspiration to get me through the training and the marathon. She was always my biggest and loudest supporter and I know she’d be proud of me now. Wish she was here, but let’s not lose anyone else to this disease.

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