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‘My Post-it proposal’

Catherine Wasley, 57, is a holistic infant sleep coach. She lives in Gloucestershire with her husband Ian, 66, and they have four children, aged 25, 21, 17 and 13.

As I rummage in my underwear drawer, my fingers touch a folded piece of paper. Opening it, I read the words my husband Ian wrote almost three decades ago: Will you marry me? He’d stuck it to my card on my 29th birthday and handed it to me – and I’d said yes immediately. Ian and I met in 1990 at a walking group in Cheltenham. At the time, I was living in a houseshare and had joined hoping to make new friends. On New Year’s Eve that year we shared our first kiss, and three months on, we had our fi...

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