brother. do. you. love. me.

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Jen Shah is helping Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes tone her abs in federal prison - as RHOSC star has been dubbed 'Jen Fonda' while serving time Cynthia Nixon's hunger strike to try and end Israel-Palestine conflict will only last two or three DAYS, source claims One of Reuben Coe’s drawings, based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which feature in his new book. Photograph: Manni Coe For 26 weeks, Manni slowly assisted Reuben’s recovery and rebuilt his sense of self. “I felt that Reuben was really plummeting, and it needed to happen,” Manni says, speaking via Zoom from Reuben’s Dorset flat, where he has lived for almost two years. Originally, there was no plan to share their writings and drawings publicly, says Manni. Reuben’s boldly coloured felt-tipped drawings – which include Joseph’s technicoloured dreamcoat, many lions and the lamppost from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – were a means of expression and communication at a time when words were not available.How does it feel to be sharing such an intensely personal journey? “We’re still getting used to it, because we’ve lived a very quiet last year,” says Manni. “It does feel as if we’re taking it outside. So it was a very private thing and now it becomes very public.” The book, published this month by Little Toller Books, tells the story of their journey together during Covid and how they wrote and drew their way through one of their biggest ever challenges. Their pictures and words communicate with one another but also express the voices of two interweaving individual lives. It also describes their lives growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, then Berkshire, with their parents in a family of four brothers – a life that “orbited the church”, writes Manni. At one point they lived in the care home that their father ran.

Manni spent nearly two months visiting him every day over the summer but returned to Spain with “huge doubts”. It was only a November selfie, of Reuben roaring like a lion, that gave him any hope. “It was a defining moment. That’s when I saw that he was ready to fight and that he’d found courage.” Soon after that came the text – brother. do. you. love. me. – which would inspire the title of their book. Love Island's Sammy Root speaks out on Jess Harding split and reveals why he's not looking to get into another relationship This misplaced pity throws me off balance. Reubs is a gift and he enjoys his life perhaps more than you and me. Actually, he helps us enjoy our lives more, too.’ Mastermind behind the Kardashians' billion-dollar brands (including SKIMS and Good American) reveals how 'anyone' can achieve business success But when Manni went to collect him from the care home, Reuben was not in a good way. “When I got him out of the home he was totally nonverbal. And that’s how the drawing happened. He was communicating by drawing.”Inside Annabel Giles' turbulent love life: Friends and exes reveal how the model ditched her fiancé on eve of wedding to run away with Midge Ure Emma Stone stars with DOLL in surreal Athens photo-shoot by The Favourite director... and quips that she wishes all her films were SILENT