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Byline: ALICE FOWLER

THE letter was sad, heartfelt, and surprisingly vulnerable - especially when one considers that the writer is perhaps the most famous woman on the planet. 'I will never get over you,' it said. 'You have touched me in an unfathomable and unexplainable way.

'You say that there can be no love without trust and I couldn't agree more.

But you mistrusted me long before I behaved in an untrustworthy fashion.

'All of this just perpetuated more negative and reactive behaviour in both of us. We went to our corners and drew our swords.

'The irony now is that I am alone completely. Alone with my thoughts and my ...

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