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It was almost as if he was throwing down the gauntlet and saying, ‘You need to come and get me out of here.’ I saw it as an SOS.” Describing him as a ‘squidgy bundle that never cried’ Manni Coe remembers the first moment he held his little brother Reuben in his arms. His earliest memory is that Reuben ‘made me happy’. On hearing that his little brother had something called Down’s syndrome, Manni wondered if his family was ‘special’ and had somehow been ‘chosen’ to have this gift bestowed upon them. His sense of responsibility and growing love for his little brother were born out of those early days of wonder and enlightenment, and the bond has never diminished. ITV presenter reveals his wife, 30, has been diagnosed with rare and incurable brain cancer just months after she gave birth to their first child This is a story of care, of connection, of resilience and most of all of love. Brotherly love. It is a deeply personal story and one which I feel touched to have read. As a fan of nature writing and memoirs I really enjoyed Manni's writing - gorgeously descriptive passages detailing the countryside nestled comfortably alongside the seemingly mundane acts of their day - crucially, I never felt as if I was intruding, by looking in. A last mention has to go to Reuben's brilliant illustrations, which fill the book with colour and personality. Netflix fans hail underrated thriller which boasts higher IMDb rating than The Crown, Happy Valley and Twin Peaks

Manni dropped everything in Spain, leaving behind his business, partner and life - unsure when he would be returning - and moved Reuben out of the care home and into an old farm cottage in the UK countryside. For months, Manni's main goal is to help Reuben to rediscover the man he knows he can be, and to carefully map out his future. They started going for walks, gradually increasing the distance, and Reuben saw a therapist, who joined their Covid bubble. “She came to the house once a week and started helping Reuben on the physical recovery as well, because he had muscle wastage and was really weak as he hadn’t gone anywhere for months,” says Manni. “And she started working on his expression.”

Inside Annabel Giles' turbulent love life: Friends and exes reveal how the model ditched her fiancé on eve of wedding to run away with Midge Ure The brothers grew up in Yorkshire and Berkshire in an evangelical Christian family — two of four boys, of whom Reuben is the youngest. He and Manni have always been particularly close. His arrival, says Manni, changed their family for the better.

Talk about the world's best job! A DOUGHNUT SCIENTIST reveals how she is creating a healthier future for bakery...Sabrina Elba looks incredible in a figure-hugging brown gown as she attends the star-studded Wonka premiere Last year the brothers published a book, brother. do. you. love. me., featuring a combination of Reuben’s tender, colourful drawings with Manni’s raw and heartfelt words. A tale of brotherly love, it is an intimate, moving account of Reuben’s healing journey. Former TOWIE star Shelby Tribble, 30, reveals she's had a breast cancer scare and has had to have a biopsy after finding a lump Katherine Ryan says she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment Reuben (right) has Down’s Syndrome. So he was trapped in a care home which his vulnerable elderly parents were unable to visit. Manni (left) was living abroad — the rules prevented him from leaving the country

Molly Mae Hague is seen without her engagement ring AGAIN after fiancé Tommy Fury 'snubbed' her after partying with women in Abu Dhabi Increasingly isolated, cut off from everyone and everything he loved, Reuben sent a text message: 'brother. do. you. love. me.' When Manni received this desperate message from his youngest brother, he knew everything had to change. Danielle Harold's mother touches down in Australia as she declares the soap star is 'already a winner in her eyes'Reuben was living in a home providing care for adults with learning disabilities. For over a year he had been non-verbal, unable to express his thoughts and feelings except on paper with felt-tip pens. He was deeply depressed and spent his days in a fog of anti-depressants. Evan Ellingson's cause of death revealed: My Sister's Keeper star died from accidental fentanyl overdose at age 35