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1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Kate Spicer

   My shameful outburst as my father was dying was my midlife anger (opens the original)

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   My greatest regret from the final weeks of my father’s life doesn’t involve that cliche of making sure you’ve said what you want to say. That’s a given. I can live with that. No, what’s plagued my conscience is something I did. One day, when he was sitting beside me in his wheelchair in a rare moment outside in the sunshine – he diminished, paralysed, in pain and on morphine – I started an argument with my stepmother, Jane. She asked me not to do something. It was a reasonable request made by an

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2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Kate Spicer

   What happened to my body when I took 'natural Ozempic' (opens the original)

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   In my group of friends, it was those of a normal weight who were the first to use fat jabs. They would buy Ozempic online, pretending they were obese so they could use this new medication to force their body into fashionably slim shapes. They took it on and off and marvelled, almost a little scared, at the fact they had barely eaten for a week. I was fascinated but also tutting and judgy behind their backs. It won’t end well, I’d say, your face will go. Middle-aged women don’t look great super s

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