Jane Ridley
Senior Features Writer and Real Life Correspondent at Daily Mail US
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6 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Ridley
When Brenda Coffee married her charismatic boss Jon Philip Ray, 14 years her senior, the wide-eyed 21-year-old imagined an exciting future of love, wealth and shared adventures. She could barely believe that the entrepreneur, who would go on to create the first personal computer, had asked her to join him while he worked hard and played hard, founding ground-breaking companies and chasing thrills in exotic parts of the world.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Ridley
Collier Landry will never forget the look in his mother's eyes when she told him what to do should she ever disappear. Speaking with quiet urgency she handed her then 11-year-old son a list of the names and numbers of friends he should contact. It was a list that, she told him, he must keep secret from his violent and abusive father. He crumpled up the piece of paper on which it was written, unzipped the back of his Garfield plushy and stuffed it inside for safe keeping.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Ridley
Ute Heggen thinks of herself as a widow – and in one sense, she is correct. The man she married as a college student is dead. He is now living as a woman, so Ute is, properly speaking, a 'trans widow', a woman whose tumultuous life experiences have presaged the culture wars gripping America today. It is more than twenty years since she discovered a secret diary Neddy (not his real name) kept, detailing his secret life of cross-dressing and visiting New York bars hoping to 'pass' as a woman.
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3 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Ridley
If things had gone to plan Kayla and Kellie Bingham would have fulfilled their shared childhood dream to have qualified as doctors by now. But life, as the saying goes, has a habit of happening when we’re making other plans and so it was for these identical twins from Columbia, South Carolina.
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3 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Ridley
Diana Troop was 11 when her mother, Elizabeth, showed her and her nine-year-old brother, Michael, a battered shoebox hidden in a closet. She emptied the contents which consisted of a tiny note with the words, ‘Baby Vera,’ handwritten in ink, a faded newspaper clipping and a small gold ring. But, before Elizabeth got the opportunity to explain what they were, the children’s grandmother stormed into the room, grabbed the items and hurriedly stashed them away.
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