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Jakob, Helena




In July 2015, when I
After being born Jakob remained strong. doctor delivered the worst was 41 weeks pregnant,
news yet.
‘Whatever we need to do
Helena’s rib cage was too
with a rare for our baby, we’ll do it,’ he narrow for her lungs to I was induced.
promised me.
Preparing to deliver
Four weeks later we found
condition, Helena out we were expecting a expand and the tissue Helena into a silent room, I
surrounding them hadn’t
could hardly believe my ears
has continued to little girl. grown adequately for her to as she let out a little cry.
We’d decided on the name
be able to survive once she
That’s the best noise I’ve
defy the odds Helena years ‘It might be was born. ever heard, I thought, as she
earlier, which
Devastatingly, was placed on my stomach.
Weighing 3.5kg, Helena
Jaime Jenkins, 25, meant bright, best that it meant our was noticeably different as
girl was going
shining light.
Parramatta, NSW It’s the to be brought I peered down at her short
s the cold wand perfect fit, I you consider into the world arms and legs. But to me she
glided over my realised. only to was just perfect.
belly, I couldn’t Then, termination,’ suffocate After Jakob cut the cord
wait to meet during an shortly he went with her to the
my bub. anatomy scan the doctor said afterwards. NICU while I was sewn up.
After being told at 21 I was at 18 weeks, ‘It might be Then we were told to say
infertile due to hormone my doctor best that you our goodbyes.
irregularities, I never thought advised us that our girl had consider termination,’ the Holding my girl one last
I’d get to be a mum. skeletal dysplasia, a form of doctor advised. time, I told her how much I
So when I fell pregnant in dwarfism that would affect Distraught, I knew I loved her.
October 2014, my partner her growth. couldn’t give up on my girl. Despite being told she
Jakob, then 22, and I were It meant that I’d need to So we proceeded with the wouldn’t survive, we were
ecstatic. But during my first undergo scans every two pregnancy and vowed to amazed the next morning to
scan at 12 weeks, the weeks for the remainder of treasure every minute we
sonographer revealed that my pregnancy so Helena’s had with Helena.
the back of our baby’s neck growth could be ...our girl
doesn’t let
was folded, advising it was a monitored. Despite all that she has faced… anything stop
common symptom of But each time I saw her her
Down’s syndrome. tiny body on the screen,
‘There’s a one in four something else seemed
chance your baby will have wrong. From club foot to
the disorder,’ the twists in her spine,
sonographer warned. Helena’s issues were
Broken, I blamed multiplying.
myself, but Then at
30 weeks
along, my

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As the days passed,
Helena continued to
defy the odds and we numerous
cherished every moment procedures to help She also has to wear a
with our girl. widen her airway so she body brace for most of the
Then, six weeks after could breathe on her own. day but she has never let
being born, Helena was She also required casting anything stop her.
finally diagnosed with to help correct her feet and out her spine. Our girl is already so
diastrophic dysplasia. misshapen hips, among Although it was intelligent, determined
It is a disorder of cartilage other issues. heartbreaking to see her in and sassy.
and bone development and At four months old, Helena so much pain, we hoped it While she can’t play on
meant Helena would be of was finally would help her trampolines or do any
short stature with very short discharged lead a more strenuous exercise, she’s just
arms and legs. from hospital. Our girl is normal life. like any other child and talks
We were very relieved to But her battles already so As she grew about being a nurse or chef
find it was a less severe form were far from used to the when she grows up.
of her original diagnosis. over. intelligent brace, Helena As she ages, she’ll likely
Doctors performed Born with was walking need further procedures on
scoliosis and and sassy around the her hips, feet and spine, as
kyphosis, hospital in no they are prone to arthritis.
Helena in her
halo brace Helena had time. But we’re committed
developed an We even learned to giving our daughter all
arched back. how to bathe her by placing the support she needs
So in April 2019, when our a bucket of water at the in the future.
girl was just three, she was bottom of her frame. Adding Each day with our angel is
to be fitted with a halo bubbles to the water and a blessing. ●
brace. The surgery would hanging fairy lights around As told to Amber Wemyss
involve 12 screws being her frame, it was like her
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‘Mandy’ Stavik use sign language. to be drowning. received training in working
went running, Her older sister, Molly, and She had suffered a blow with DNA.
her mum, Mary, younger brother, Lee, prayed to the back of her head and His training paid off. Male
usually went too. she’d come home safely. had scratches up her legs as DNA was found on Mandy
The pair would be spotted But three days after if she had been running and, although there were no
around their small town, Mandy had gone missing, a through the bush. matches for the man in the
with Mary riding her bike volunteer firefighter found Her clothes were gone DNA registry, it was kept on COMPILED BY EMMA LEVETT PHOTOS: WHATCOM COU
to keep pace with her her lifeless body in the – and so was her murderer. file and preserved perfectly.
teenage daughter . shallow water of a nearby In 1989, DNA crime- The terrible crime affected SHERIFF’S OFFICE; ABC; CBS.
But on the afternoon river. She was naked apart matching technology was in the small community, taking
of November 24, 1989, from her running shoes. its infancy, but Detective Ron its innocence and becoming
Mandy, 18, took off with Mandy had been raped and Peterson, who was assigned a constant talking point for
just the family dog, Kyra,
for company.
Tim Bass
Only Kyra returned. (right) being
Panicking, Mary called interviewed
her daughter’s boyfriend,
Rick Zender.
Then she phoned the
police and anyone else she
could think of.
Soon, she had everybody
she knew searching for
Mandy – a popular, athletic
and bright student, who
could play saxophone and Mary and Mandy

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mystery dragged on. Timothy had never been his DNA because he didn’t one. However, they were
People were questioned, contacted by the police. trust them. able to accept any evidence
while leads appeared and He was now married with Suddenly, he became brought to them, and Kim,
disappeared. three children and worked suspect number one. having a daughter herself,
‘I don’t think I ever as a delivery The problem was keen to find some.
believed, ever, that they driver for was proving it She watched Timothy
would catch the guy,’ a bakery. An initial – and without closely.
Mary admitted. An initial DNA the He would wear gloves on
Then, in 2009, Detective meeting meeting police had his rounds and, suspiciously,
Kevin Bowhay was handed with him a difficult took his rubbish home
the 20-year-old cold case. immediately with him job ahead. with him.
He came up with the idea raised red So, they But one day, Kim saw him
to do a systematic DNA flags for immediately approached drinking Coca-Cola from a
sweep of as many men as he police. raised red flags his colleague plastic cup and then throw
could find who were living in He claimed at the bakery, it in the bin.
the area in 1989. not to know or Kim Wagner. Her heart beating out
Four years later, he was even remember Initially, she of her chest, she grabbed
still pursuing the same route Mandy Stavik. sent them away, but then, the cup and the can and put
when Timothy Bass’ name ‘[That] indicated to me he after realising the severity of them in her desk drawer.
was mentioned. was obviously lying,’ said his potential crime, she Oh, my God. That just
He’d been 22 at the time Bowhay. ‘Everybody knew turned detective herself. happened! she thought.
and lived a few doors down what the Mandy Stavik case Police needed a search After delivering it to
from the Staviks. was and she ran past his warrant to collect Timothy’s the police, it was sent to
His younger brother, Tom, house every day. How would DNA and there wasn’t a crime lab for testing.
was friends with Mandy. you not know it?’
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Incredibly, the results
indicated that Timothy’s
DNA was a one-in-11
quadrillion match to the
DNA recovered from the
crime scene.
In December 2017 – 28
years after the brutal murder
– Bass was arrested.
Mandy’s mother, Mary,
learned of the arrest on her
Mary
81st birthday. Mandy’s learned
For Bass, this was never sister, of Bass’
meant to happen. Molly arrest on
her 81st
His now ex-wife, Gina birthday
Malone, who had a domestic ‘There’s no way my
violence protection order sister would have had a Bass, 50, pleaded not guilty,
against him, told how Bass relationship, a physical and in May 2019, his trial For the family, their
watched cold relationship began. After hearing 30-year wait for justice was
case crimes with Tim evidence for three weeks, finally over.
on TV. Bass watched Bass,’ Mandy’s the jury convicting him of ‘It was bittersweet,’ Molly
‘I wouldn’t sister Molly murder, rape and kidnapping. told The Bellingham Herald.
get caught cold case said. ‘She was Bass was jailed for 27 ‘It’s like a wound that just
because I’m crimes on TV way, way, way years. He expressed no won’t heal. It’s starting to
not that out of his acceptance of, or remorse heal and it’s got all this
stupid,’ he’d league, to put for, his crimes. scar tissue – you can see it
bragged. it bluntly.’ ‘I would first like to say every day. And then all of a
But his plan to explain Bass had no proof of a that I am 100 per cent sudden, they literally rip the
the DNA, by saying he was relationship and there were innocent of this crime,’ he scar tissue off the wound
having a secret sexual no witnesses who had ever said. ‘I wish no ill-will and reopen it.
relationship with Mandy seen them together. towards anyone here, not ‘But I think now we
didn’t convince anyone. In court, Timothy Forrest even today. But I am having can slowly start healing,
a hard time with this.’ growing,’ she added. ●



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was a friend of her
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Two mums were watching
home, Heather let Bass in
And
both
their kids at a local water suspected the same local when he said he needed to was 21 when the pair were
park and chatting when the man, Timothy Bass. use their phone. She quickly in her now-husband’s truck
topic of Mandy Stavik came Intrigued, each confessed realised he’d lied. after a softball game.
up, bringing with it some their reasoning, both having ‘So, then he walks through ‘He would talk about my
painful memories for both. had similar experiences. the kitchen and back to my eyes and say they were
Heather Backstrom and Bass had dropped in at bedroom,’ Heather told CBS beautiful. Then he took a pen
Merrilee Anderson had both Heather’s home a couple of News’ 48 Hour. ‘And he said out of the cup holder and
gone to the same school as years after Mandy’s murder, he used to drive by our would start rubbing it along
Mandy around the time she house. And my knees,’ said Merrilee.
had. Neither woman knew that he had Both women thought of
each other back then, but always Bass as a predator and
when Heather brought up been in assumed he must have done
the case, saying she couldn’t love with the same to other women,
believe it was still unsolved, me. And possibly even to Mandy. But
the pair realised they had wanted to living in a small town,
much more in common than make love neither had told police. Until
they’d initially thought. to me.’ now. After the chat, Merrilee
Heather blurted out that Terrified, spoke to a detective and it
she knew who had killed and saying was at that point, in 2013,
Mandy. In shock, Merrilee Heather and Merilee being interviewed she’d call Bass became a suspect.

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LaurenHarris,34,andherbestieJess donor. But I wondered if it look at sperm donors?’
‘Why don’t we have a
really could be a possibility.
tooktheirfutureintotheirownhands on our own?’ Jess said. I said, feeling curious
‘Why don’t we get pregnant
one night.
ifting my wine turn out to be our happily- I trusted Jess with my life Meeting at a bar, we
glass, I smiled. ever-after. and I knew we’d support pulled out our laptops.
‘Here’s to new By the time I reached 32, one another just like a Then over drinks, we
friends,’ I toasted. I could practically hear the partner would. scrolled through different
Jess worked with my dad ‘tick, tick, tick’ of my The more we talked about profiles, assessing their
and he’d just introduced us. biological clock. it, the more sense it made. height, family history and
One drink became two, I felt So, we began everything in between.
and by the end of the night I hopeless I trusted Jess researching ‘It’s so surreal to think one
knew we’d be good friends. and Jess was the process of of these men could be the
At 31, Jess was two years the same. with my life using a sperm father of my child!’ I said.
older, and like me, she was ‘I don’t want bank and While I had planned to
desperate to be a mum. to give up on and I knew discovered a wait until I was 35, the tests
But neither of us had my dreams of community of indicated my fertility was
found the right man to settle being a mum,’ we’d support women having declining and I realised it
down with. she said. babies alone, was now or never.
Over the next three years, ‘But time’s one another calling So, after six months,
we both had relationships running out.’ themselves I told Jess, ‘I really want
and countless first dates, We’d always Single Mums to do this.’
hoping one of them would joked about bypassing the By Choice. ‘So do I!’ she said.
relationship part and We each thought about it Thankfully, we were met
having babies on our realistically, calculating the with love and support from
In hospital own using a sperm costs of raising a child alone. our family and friends.
with Jess We visited a By November 2018, we’d
to have
her baby fertility clinic decided on our sperm
to assess donors and, two months
our options later, Jess was inseminated.
and then Nine days after that, she
underwent rang me on a video call.
tests. ‘I think I’m hallucinating,’
she said, waving a pregnancy
test in front of her camera.
Did you ‘No, you’re not,’ I shrieked,
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was Jess’ turn to clutch She decided to name her And Jess and I bought
But two weeks later, those my hand as we stared up at Maya and she was perfect. houses next to each other!
hopes were dashed when the screen. Then at 38 weeks, the I hope our story
I didn’t fall pregnant. The ultrasound showed doctors noticed my baby encourages other women
‘Next time,’ Jess told me. I was carrying twins but a had stopped growing. to seek their own path to
Despite my disappointment, few weeks later, I lost one I was induced, and now it motherhood.
my excitement for Jess never of the babies. was Jess’ turn to squeeze my Because having a baby
wavered, and at six weeks, Then, a few days before hand as my contractions with my best friend made
we went to her first scan. Jess’ due date, the nurses grew stronger and stronger. my dreams come true. ●
I held her hand as we noticed her Eventually As told to Jess Bell
looked up at the screen. blood pressure I gave one last
Over the next few months, was high so As she was big push and
Jess’ pregnancy progressed she was placed in my moments later, Jess, 36,
well but my journey wasn’t induced. the nurse
so smooth. Despite arms, my heart shrieked, says:
By April 2019, I’d had three being five ‘It’s a girl!’
unsuccessful inseminations months swelled As she
and I decided to try IVF. pregnant placed her in As friends, we faced many
Daily injections followed, myself, I was my arms, my highs and lows on our
before I had my eggs determined to be heart swelled. journey to become mums.
retrieved and fertilised there for her. I named her Hannah Jane, It was incredibly hard
with donor sperm. I stayed by Jess’ side as and back home, I got to grips watching Lauren struggle
Just over two weeks later, the contractions took hold, with being a single mum. to conceive, knowing she
I rang Jess. and after 29 hours, she It was overwhelming at longed for a baby. So
‘I’m pregnant,’ I said. pushed her baby girl into first, but both Jess and my when she fell pregnant, I
After five months of the world. family have been amazing. was over the moon. Now
heartbreak, I sobbed with ‘Is she really mine?’ Jess Now, my little girl is five I can’t wait to watch our
happiness and relief. said, gazing down at the weeks old and she’s doing girls grow up together.
At my six-week scan, it bundle on her chest. well.

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SECRET story




Ruth,36,was

rustling up dinner


when disaster struck



H olding the
shopping basket
in one hand, I
worked my way
around the supermarket
ticking items off my list.
My in-laws were coming
for dinner and I was going to
pull out all the stops.
I’d decided to make my
signature beef lasagne with
homemade pasta sheets.
I loved cooking and I
wanted to impress my
mother-in-law, Gloria.
She had impossibly high
standards and it felt like
I was never quite good
enough for her son Bruce.
Back at home, I unpacked
the shopping and began A PLATE
making the fresh pasta.
It was tiring work as I
flattened the ball of dough
and carefully threaded it
through my pasta maker. OF LIE
Over the next few hours
I slaved away at the stove, ‘I’m going to get changed,’ Pacing up and down the
rustling up a meaty filling I said, sprinting up the stairs. kitchen, I racked my brain
and smooth white sauce. I’d only just finished for a solution. bins and served up four
I’d lost track of time until getting ready when I heard Then, I had an idea. plates with a side salad.
suddenly my phone buzzed a knock at the door. Pulling open the freezer, Please let this work,
with a text from Gloria. I flew down the stairs. I rifled through the ready I thought, putting the hot
We’re on our way. ‘Come in!’ I beamed. meals and Tupperware plate in front of Gloria.
Glancing at the clock, my I poured them containers. She took a bite and I held
stomach dropped. each a drink in Bingo! my breath. Then she smiled.
It would only take them the lounge I’d forgotten I thought, ‘So much better than that
20 minutes and I wasn’t room before pulling out supermarket rubbish,’ she
anywhere near ready. Plus, popping into to turn on two large said, digging in for more.
the house was a mess. the kitchen supermarket ‘You’re so right Gloria,’
Frantic now, I assembled to check on the oven! lasagnes. I said. ‘I love my pasta maker.’
the lasagne and shoved the the dinner. I had no When I told Bruce later, he
dish in the oven. Then, But when idea if Gloria couldn’t believe it.
dashing into the living room, I pulled open the would fall for it, ‘But she’s always moaning
I asked Bruce to tidy up. oven door, I froze. but it was my only option. about processed food,’
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Years later, she still can’t
living room.
‘How’s it going in there?’
homemade lasagne was! ●
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Bruce called out.
‘Fine,’ I squeaked. ‘Not
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The disease had caused his But by 5.30pm I couldn’t to Andrew.
leg to go black and doctors bear to put any weight on my At Canberra Hospital, my
had cut out a section of flesh leg as I cooked dinner. worst fears were confirmed
to save his life. With Andrew at a meeting, – I was diagnosed with the
11:22PM What a miracle he was and Edward and Victoria flesh-eating bug. Doctors said
saved, I thought. planning to stay at friends’ it was from a break in the
The following month, in houses that night, it was just skin, caused by the scratch. I
I became
delirious and September 2017, I noticed I going to be me and Henry. was immediately prepped for
the pain was had little red bumps on the After whipping up a batch surgery, where doctors would
excruciating inside of my lower right leg. of spaghetti bolognaise, I try to remove the infection.
I hadn’t used any new waved the kids off and ‘What’s happening?’ I asked
skincare products or had any collapsed on the a doctor.
underlying skin conditions, lounge. ‘You will
but whatever had caused the By now, the ‘You will either either lose
bumps was making them itch redness had your leg or
like crazy. spread from lose your leg die,’ he replied
I’m sure it will go away my ankle bluntly.
12:57AM on it’s own, I thought. to my knee or die’ Terrified, I
Being the school holidays, I and the area thought of the
Black spots was focused on spending felt like it had kids. ‘Tell them
appeared all
over my leg time with my three youngest been badly sunburned. I love them,’ I begged Andrew.
kids, Edward, then 17, Suddenly, I felt a shiver Then, after a quick kiss
Victoria, 15, and Henry, 13. wash over me, so I wrapped goodbye, I was whisked into
My eldest son, Charles, 19, myself in a fleece blanket theatre.
had recently moved away. and went to bed with a hot When I woke in ICU the
A few days later, I realised water bottle. next day, a nurse told me
I’d mindlessly scratched the But the pain in my leg was the surgical team had
red bumps on my leg so so excruciating, I couldn’t managed to save my leg.
much I’d broken the skin. even handle the pressure of They’d been forced to cut
I cleaned it with Dettol and the bedsheet on top of it. out a large section of skin
4:51AM covered it I’ll feel better once I sleep, and muscle – measuring

with a I convinced myself. 20cm long, 10cm wide and
I needed five bandaid to By the time Andrew got 6cm deep – going from my
surgeries to stop germs home at around 10pm, I was knee right down to my ankle,
clear the
infection from completely delirious. to remove the infected area.
spreading. That’s when he noticed a As a size 28, I’d struggled
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woke the Over the next few hours, Incredibly, doctors revealed
following black dots had spread up to that because I was a bigger
day, though, my knee so he called an person, the extra flesh on my
my calf was ambulance. calf meant the bug didn’t
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I underwent four more understand the importance
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The pair first met in
than ever.
imon and Edna
S Martin have been 2003 when Simon, an had its complications. bedroom as much as any
‘We are still intimate in the
married for 14
Simon, who has Asperger’s
accomplished and some
years and their
great-grandmother, says.
running late for a concert.
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dyspraxia and diabetes, had
We ll often stop in the street
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last 14 months – as Simon he came face like a couple of still living at accepted Edna as their
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needs. Use the back of a PREP AND COOK: in a large bowl.
knife to gently ease 1 HOUR, 25 MINS 3 Meanwhile, cut each slice
out the cooked garlic 1 bulb garlic, trimmed of pumpkin crossways into
flesh. 3 medium beetroot (550g), trimmed three wedges. Toss pumpkin
7 50g butternut pumpkin, peeled, and carrots in a roasting
halved lengthways, cut into pan with the cumin and
2cm thick slices oil. Season with salt and
1 bunch Dutch carrots, peeled and cracked black pepper.
trimmed 4 Cook in same moderate oven
2 tsps cumin seeds (180°C) for 30 minutes, or until
1 tblsp olive oil tender. Let cool.
1 cup white quinoa (200g), rinsed 5 Meanwhile, place quinoa
well in a saucepan with 2 cups water.
1 cup coarsely chopped fresh Bring to boil. Simmer, covered,
parsley, plus extra to garnish for 10 minutes. Remove from
¼ cup sunflower kernels heat. Stand, covered, for 5
DRESSING minutes. Drain. Rinse under
¼ cup natural yoghurt cold water. Drain.
1 tblsp lemon juice 6 Add quinoa to the beetroot
1 tblsp extra virgin olive oil with the pumpkin, carrots,
parsley and sunflower kernels.
1 Cut the top quarter off Toss well.
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2 Cook in a moderate oven juice and oil. Whisk until
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CAPSICUMS AND ONIONS Taleggio is an Italian
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SERVES 4 in a large roasting a strong smell but mild
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40 MINS baking paper. camembert, or any other
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2 red onions, cut into 2 Cook in a very hot
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3cm pieces oven (240°C) for
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2 cloves garlic, of boiling, salted
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¼ cup olive oil Drain, reserving
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1 50g baby spinach water. Return pasta
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1 00g taleggio cheese, 4 Add capsicum
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trimmed (180°C).
8 eggs 4 Arrange asparagus
½ cup thickened cream crossways over potato
⅓ cup finely grated and onion. Whisk eggs,
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1 tblsp chopped fresh thyme in a large jug.
thyme leaves Season with salt and
Baby rocket leaves, to serve pepper. Pour over top.
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