“This was my favourite photo of you. You looked like a real angel; I knew I had to take a photo”

There was so much love and adoration in Dad’s eyes as we looked at a picture of me when I was seven. I had to admit that I was a real beauty as a child. It felt like I was staring at a human-sized Barbie doll.

I was wearing a cute pink gown, and my blonde hair had been put into a ponytail, and my eyes were so blue as they sparkled with innocence and mischief.

“It had been a hassle to get you to stay still for that...