It is a stark, and terrifying memory. "I was writing a text to dad, telling him we were on our way, when I looked up and saw this guy. "He stood ten metres away, dressed all in black, with a cap and glasses and a backpack. "I could see either side of his face and thought his deadpan expression seemed a bit strange. 'I love you more than anything in the world' Nell said. "'I love you too,' I replied, smiling and pressing send on the text. "In that exact moment everything went wrong.
There was a piercing sound - the loudest thing I'd ever heard. "I was flown forward into a giant bright light. Everything was in slow motion , and then Nell's arm slipped out of mine." Freya Lewis' description of the moment the Manchester Arena bomb was detonated
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