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Article: Your Life: Health: Why this New Year is so special; EMILY IS LOOKING FORWARD TO 2006. BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE RESOLUTION SHE IS MAKING - TO STAY ALIVE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: BY JULIE MCCAFFREY
EMILY Thackray blew the budget on Christmas presents this year. She's spent hours decorating her tree, painstakingly matching ribbons and bows with her wrapping paper.
She is putting all her efforts into having the best Christmas ever - because it is likely to be her last.
Aged only 21, Emily has been given just months to live. She has lived with cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that obstructs the airways to the lungs, her whole life.
But nine months ago she was told that her condition had become critical ...