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Saturday, 6 May, 2023

How a man rescued his Down’s syndrome brother from a care home in lockdown — The Jewish Chronicle

In November 2020, when Manni Coe received an unsettling text from his brother, Reuben, containing just five words: “brother. do. you. love. me.” he knew exactly what it meant.

Manni was at home in Andalusia where he runs an independent travel company, and Reuben, 39, who has Down’s syndrome, was living in a care home in Dorset, depressed and isolated in lockdown.

“He knows I love him so when I got the message, I knew it wasn’t a question,” Manni explains. “There wasn’t a question mark — Reuben doesn’t really use punctuation. It was coded and I interpreted it as, ‘If you love me, then show me the colour of your love.’

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https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/how-a-man-rescued-his-downs-syndrome-brother-from-a-care-home-in-lockdown-4IYrxFMOql9yK729T079hu
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