the soap. Mary confessed to Sean Tully that she harboured a crush on the 45-year-old married father of two, and unfurled a blanket she had ordered, adorned with many faces of Shephard.Offering the blanket to unlucky-in-love Sean she said: "I wanted to feel what it would be like to wrapped in his arms but I think your need is greater."Take him, take my Ben."Clocking Sean's stunned reaction to her Ben blanket she realised she should explain."I haven't had a cuddle from a handsome man for many many a moon and I thought what could be more reassuring than to be wrapped in the arms of the always smiling, ever kind Ben Shephard," she said.Noticing that Sean still seemed unsure of her purchase she told him: "You make it sound tacky, my love for Ben.
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