Growing up as the youngest of four brothers, Reuben was part of a merry troupe in a family filled with love and natural warmth. Manni explains that their parents’ lives ‘orbited the Church’. One day, after a comment at school Reuben asks his father “Why do I have Down’s syndrome?” His father explains how much the family love him and says: “You are a gift. And guess what? You will not have Down’s syndrome in heaven.” Manni has always been bewildered by the response. However, today he accepts that it is something that we all do. It was an ‘evasion’, a shaping of make-believe to avoid pain. For Reuben it may have helped nurture a fantasy and escape that in reality helped build a mythical world for him to live in. Like places in Reuben’s favourite stories, CS Lewis’s Narnia and JR Tolkein’s Middle Earth, make-believe is a place to go when the real world presents too much pressure, in the same way that characters from The Lion King embody what Reuben sees as safe and strong. Manni confronted them but he sighs that ‘they defended themselves vigorously, reciting carer terms and policies as they sat with coffee and cakes on the picnic table in the garden’. Farrah Abraham reveals she met mystery new boyfriend on ONLYFANS and made him sign an NDA as they hold hands during bikini-filled beach stroll

It is a story of brotherhood’ says Manni. ‘It’s about caring for and loving somebody in a real and practical way. It isn’t a book that attempts to describe Down’s syndrome to people. It’s really just a story of two brothers who need each other. I need Reubs just as much as he needs me.’ I'm A Celebrity's Nella Rose rushed out of camp to see medic as hostsAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly share health update My hope is that when people read it, the next time they meet someone with Up Syndrome, they will have the confidence to know how to engage them and not be afraid to do so.” We have a lot of Jewish clients and I go on these missions to uncover Sephardi history and I’m deeply affected by it.”

I'm A Celebrity bosses 'fear more stars could quit the show' after Grace Dent's departure - as hungry campmates face storms and harsh trials Reuben Coe grew up in Berkshire and is the youngest of four brothers. He completed a B-tech in Drama before settling into life in a care home in Newbury. Always open to adventure, he decided to go and live in Spain with his brother Manni. They enjoyed seven sun-filled years together but now Reuben has returned to the UK and lives in North Dorset. He has a passion for drawing. His art has been used by both Norwich and St Paul’s Cathedral and his range of Christmas cards helped raise funds for the NHS during the pandemic. This is the first time his illustrations have appeared in a book. How does it feel to be sharing such an intensely personal journey? “We’re still getting used to it, because we’ve lived a very quiet last year,” says Manni. “It does feel as if we’re taking it outside. So it was a very private thing and now it becomes very public.” Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci's daughter Deva, 19, reveals how her parents helped her modelling career as she stars on the cover of V Magazine He immediately left his life in Spain and returned to England, moving Reuben out of the care home and into an old farm cottage in the countryside.

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Before September 2018, when Reuben lived with his brother and his partner in Spain , he was “chatty Cathy”, says Manni. “Always the life and soul of the party.” He didn’t use many full sentences but he was a skilled communicator. Charli XCX is engaged! Pop superstar announces she is to wed The 1975 drummer George Daniel after one year of dating