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She's Alive?

Debbie runs into her late hairdresser's identical cousin. In this episode, Simon returns to Reading and recalls a school project that led to him unearthing a secret about his parents' marriage and his sister revealing devastating news.

Debbie runs into her late hairdresser's identical cousin. In this episode, Simon Doonan returns to Reading from New York with a broken heart to find that his mother, Debbie, has taken in a couple of Polish women. An object in his old bedroom reminds him of his younger self. One of his school teachers disbelieves that, unlike everybody else in his class, he has two married parents. The teacher sets the class a project on genealogy and a rather extraordinary picture emerges. Simon's mother, father and their lodger, Auntie Hayley, each give him conflicting memories of his parents' wedding day.

It finally emerges that due to a series of mishaps his parents have never actually been married. Far from despondent, Simon and his best friend Kylie set about designing and preparing for his parents' wedding. All goes well until his mother discovers that his father, Andy, is spending his stag night at their local pub's Enya homage night. It was Enya who inadvertently prevented their original wedding.

Finally mum and dad are married, Kylie and Simon are bridesmaids and all including blind Auntie Hayley dressed in Nazi uniform take part in a Sound of Music themed wedding ceremony. The reception is interrupted however by calamitous news from both daughter, Ashlene, and lodger, Hayley.

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