And has Thrilled with the Greatest Solo Roles. [Eire Region]

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IT WAS the last place Monica Loughman expected to find love. She heaved her hot and bothered baby son onto her hip - she had forgotten the buggy - and tried with her free hand to get her groceries through the self checkout in her local Tesco in Rathfarnham. Life as a single mother running an ambitious ballet company could be a lonely juggle, especially when Damien's Russian father, Robert Gabdullin, was so immersed in his career as a soloist in the Polish National Ballet.

Only three months earlier, Monica, 33, found herself sobbing alone on the couch watching the X Factor - she never got to go out - beseeching her dead mother to 'please, send me somebody'.

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And has Thrilled with the Greatest Solo Roles. [Eire Region]

And, suddenly, here he was - in Tesco.

'This man came over and rescued me,' she smiles, over coffee in Dublin's Merrion Hotel.

'He dropped all his shopping, packed my bag, paid for it- and put his business card in my bag. When I unpacked the stuff at home, I texted him to say thank you. He goes, "I recognised you. My name is..." I think he had seen me on [the 2008 RTE series] Ballet Chancers. I had gone straight to Tesco from class and my hair was in a bun - proba...

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