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Outlook Weekend: The Things We Do For Love

Two stories to make your jaw drop and your heart melt.

Claudia di Maggio from Sydney has always known that her mum, Antonietta, would do anything for her. When she found out she would only be able to have a baby through a surrogate Antonietta stepped in, volunteering to give birth to her own grandson.

In 1975 PK Mahanandia was an impoverished art student in Delhi making a bit of cash by sketching tourists. One day he met a young Swedish tourist called Lotta von Schedvin. A year later, he cycled 7,000 miles to Sweden to be reunited with her.

Image: a young Tibetan woman carrying her baby at the foot of the Nojing Kangtsang glacier
Credit: PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images

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