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Rewind 20 years. Our mum ( #Mutti) had had cancer for a year & we knew this would almost certainly be her last birthday. #Vati’s gift to her was professional pictures of #Brina & me, taken by Rachel Mitchell in #EllesmerePort, exactly 20 years ago today (17.09.2000).
When we arrived, there was something very faintly familiar to me about her assistant, named Kari-Anne. It took us a while but we worked it out: she & I had been at school together at @LittleSuttonCoE for a couple of terms in 1985! #random
The photo shoot was great fun for all of us. #Brina & I naturally bounced off each other & there was lots of laughing & joking. The results include some of the best photos ever taken of either of us.
The photos were mounted in two folding albums & #Mutti loved them. Just over 6 months later, in the last two hours of her life at @TheCountessNHS, #Vati & I dug them out of her hospital bag & set them up on the table at the end of her bed, so she could see them.
When #Vati eventually moved back to London, the photos went with him. Last month, I collected his personal effects from his house & brought them home. I managed to scan them & chose one as my profile picture. Here are all 6...
