Article: Michaela came to me in a dream and looked so beautiful .. I'm not afraid to die Mum; HEARTBREAK OF THE SISTERS WHO DIED OF ANOREXIA.(Features)

Suzy Kendall bent over her sleeping daughter and took her thin hand in hers. "I love you," she whispered. "Look after each other."

Her other daughter, Michaela, had died three and a half years ago. Now Samantha was slipping away too.

As she lay on a life-support machine at Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital, wracked by an 18-year battle against anorexia, her pitifully emaciated body weighed less than five stone.

It was the last time Suzy saw her. "I couldn't even kiss her because she was covered in so many tubes," she says. "I told her I loved her ...

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