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OUR MIRACLE GIRL HOME AT LAST

SHE was born at 25 weeks, barely a week after newborns are deemed viable, and weighed no more than a can of cooldrink – just 440g.

For months little Ruaché Botha’s parents watched as doctors and nurses scrambled to bring her back from the brink – her heart stopped, her lungs collapsed and there were endless complications.

“After I got to 10, I stopped counting the number of times her heart stopped,” mom Mari (30) says. “The paediatrician told us to prepare for the worst. My mother-in-law and I prayed so much the doctor said we’d tire God out. But here we

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