All night we stayed by her side, praying for a miracle Born a few minutes before me, I’d followed my twin sister into the world.
So, it was only natural that she became the protective, outspoken one.
She stuck up for me in the playground when another girl picked on me.
As teenagers, she was always there for advice and a girly chat.
And when Joel Hayden came into her life, I was keen to like him, too.
‘I met an amazing guy,’ she beamed, aged 17.
Three years her senior, he seemed great, really funny.
And smitten with my sister, always buying her flowers.
But a year later, Renee moved from Maine, where we lived with our mum Pat Gerber, now 55, and stepdad Mark, 50, to Alabama, so…
