The grieving parents of a schoolgirl who died after eating curry and chips, have left her bedroom untouched after 10 years and her mum still kisses her photo every night.
Holly Stuckey died in her dad's arms aged just 12 after suffering a suspected allergic reaction to her favourite meal, though doctors have never pinpointed the cause.
The little girl had been out shopping with dad Clive Stuckey before they returned home for lunch and within minutes she went from "happy and normal" to gasping for air.
The 52-year-old dad tried desperately to save his daughter at their home in Maesteg, Bridgend, after she suddenly fell ill on September 5, 2010, reports Wales Online.
He said at first he thought Holly was suffering from an asthma attack before an inquest heard she had died from anaphylactic shock, but the cause is still unknown.
Not knowing the exact cause of his daughter's death has weighed on Clive over the years but he said he has now found peace knowing he did all he could.
He said: "I wish it had been a different outcome and I wish she were still here today.
"We always talk about her, we were very close as a family. I have so many happy memories and I'm always thinking of her.
"But I know there was nothing else I could have done to save her and that has made the past 10 years a little bit easier.
"Obviously, I wish we had known she had an allergy. I would have made sure the food was OK and that we had an Epi-Pen. They thought it could have been something on the frozen chips and I would think 'what if I had given her different chips that day?' and little things like that - but we just didn't know."
Clive and wife Lee and left their daughter's bedroom exactly as it was, including her favourite Hannah Montana poster, while her stuffed toys have been left untouched.
While Lee kisses one of many photos that fill the house every night before going to bed.
"It's all still there," said Clive, a senior carer. "We couldn't get rid of it."
"I still remember that day as if it was last week," he continued.
"It was a few minutes after her meal when she started complaining of a tummy ache and was struggling to breathe. I thought it was her asthma, so I gave her her pump and told her to relax to try and get her breath back.
"I had to take her to the bathroom and a few minutes later she started to go floppy and lost consciousness. That's when I knew it wasn't an asthma attack.
"I shouted for my wife to call 999. Holly started to turn white and then blue. Because of my line of work, I knew she was dying.
"I put her into the recovery position and started to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
"It was horrendous, but I know there was nothing else I could have done."
Holly was rushed to Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend but efforts to revive her failed, while Clive has urged parents to learn CPR just in case.
"Because I knew CPR, I knew I had done all I could. If I didn't know how to do it, I would have spent the rest of my life wondering 'what if I had carried out CPR?'.
Following her death, Holly's parents found out she was being severely bullied after finding a hidden letter she had written describing her experiences at Maesteg Comprehensive School.
"I hate you for what you have done to me. I feel like no one," she had written.
The letter went on to reveal Holly was picked on at school because she didn't as much about sex as her peers.
"I wish I had known," said the dad. "If I had known I would have done something. It's horrific knowing that she wasn't happy at school.
"In the weeks before her death she would come home from school more withdrawn and not quite herself, but then she would be happy again within no time.
"She was still going out with her friends, I would be dropping her off at the youth club or the park.
"I want parents to know what to look for and I urge them to speak to their children. Ask them how their day was, ask if they are having problems at school. We just assumed that everything was OK and it wasn't."
Clive said: "Waiting to find out why she died was a horrendous time. We had to wait 18 months before the inquest because of the tests they had to carry out."
Clive said he now finds comfort in talking about his daughter but Lee "can bottle it up".
Speaking of how he's coped over the past 10 years, he said: "If I'm having a bad day, I talk to my friends or my colleagues. I have a very good support unit which has helped me a lot.
"I'm OK talking about Holly and what happened whereas Lee can bottle it up, she finds it harder to talk about it.
"I've been a rock to her and she has to me. Sometimes you hear how couples break up when their child dies - it's like they can't cope without them, but it's made us stronger which I'm very thankful for.
"Every year we would go away on a two week holiday in August with Holly and we still do that just to have some quality time. We light a candle for Holly and look up into the starts and think about her."
In December this year, she would be turning 22 and Clive said he regularly thinks about what Holly might have been like if she were alive.
"Holly loved dancing and singing. She had a music machine with a microphone and she was always singing into it. I can imagine her being a pop star.
"She was very family oriented as well and we were a very close family. She told me once that she wanted to get married and carry on living with us because she didn't want to leave.
"Holly was such a happy, outgoing and friendly girl. I don't want people to forget that."
