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Katie was long tall, thin and gorgeous. Men flocked around her. Having been like that since birth there was always someone to flock. First, it was the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

‘Oh she's so gorgeous!’ they constantly exclaimed.

The problem came as she grew up. The constant praise constant admiration and constant verbalising of her amazing physical attributes meant she knew full well how special she was. This conversely meant that she didn't have any negative attributes and quite frankly she didn't. She was a lovely person. Kind, caring, helpful and understanding. Nothing was wrong with Katie. The only problem she had was she was too perfect she couldn't find anyone to love her.

One day whilst at a health retreat Katie collapsed. The ambulance was called and she was delivered very quickly to hospital.

They scanned, measured, analysed, deduced and scanned, measured, analysed and deduced some more. They couldn't find anything.

They kept her in for a week. Still nothing.

Finally, a very switched-on nurse realised what the doctors couldn't. Katie was too perfect. So perfect in fact that her body and mind couldn't cope, so it collapsed.

Eventually Katie headed home determined not to be perfect. So, she took up knitting. She forced herself to make mistakes, lots of mistakes, but needed her mum's help.