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When Simon Smith lost his wife eight years ago to brain cancer, the experience was ‘so swift and so brutal’, he didn’t have any time to work out the best way to help his two daughters through the grief of losing their mother, Nicky.
She fell so ill so quickly, that the family didn’t have time to strategise, he recalls. Instead, Betsy and Tilly, then just eight and six, were thrown in at the deep end.
It was an unimaginably…
