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A Day to Remember

TINDRA Salisbury dearly loved her psychiatrist husband, Justin, her two bright children, Peter (18), and Samantha (16), her comfortable home and the beautiful city in which she lived, Cape Town. A strikingly beautiful and creative person, she had set up her own successful boutique business, selling elegant dresses which she’d designed, cut and stitched.

She was from Umea, in Northern Sweden. But no one can say where in Umea she was born exactly, because as a baby she was left on the porch of a house one summer’s night with a note pinned to the basket to say her single mother could not afford to raise her.

She was adopted when she was one by a husband-and-wife medical research team who gave her the unusual name Tindra, which means to sparkle and twinkle.

The couple decided to seek sunnier climes

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