Christmas has changed for me in the last few years. My children have all moved away and it's rare that we can all get together at Christmas now. So when Cleo contacted me to do a photo shoot for her family on boxing day of course I said yes. How special that everyone would be there. There's so much more to this story though. On Christmas day Janet's children gave her a gift voucher to have a family photo shoot. When she received it she said "But when will we all be getting together again to do the shoot?" What Janet didn't know was that Cleo had already booked me to shoot the photo on boxing day which was Janet's 60th birthday. Life is short, we never know when it's our last day. Take every
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