Story
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As you may know, this year I will be taking part in the Edinburgh marathon in memory of my friend Laura Martin who died suddenly on 13 December 2010, she was just 39 years old. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Her story was featured heavily in the press </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12296052" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12296052</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This has been an extremely difficult time for Andy, Laura’s husband, and their two beautiful children Abbie<span style="mso-themecolor: dark2;"> aged 9</span> and Jamie <span style="mso-themecolor: dark2;">aged 6</span>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie is autistic and Andy has found support from the wonderful charity PACT (Parents of Autistic Children Together) which is why I <span style="mso-themecolor: dark2;">am</span> looking to support this charity in any way I can. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The marathon itself is on 22<sup>nd</sup> May and I will be running with my friend and training partner Alistair. We are hoping to raise as much as possible for this worthy charity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I appreciate that times are tough but any support you can offer would mean so much.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Laura touched the lives of everybody she met and will never be forgotten but truly missed. </span></p>
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