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There were only short-term partners until she finally walked down the aisle with my stepfather when I was 17.

David remembers the moment he found his elderly stepfather, John, unkempt and suffering from dementia, living alone in an unclean hotel room.

Kelly Christmas, 29, a support worker at the town's hospital, says her mother and stepfather were both employed as cleaners at the works.

He was one of six siblings and took the name of his stepfather, JD Foreman, rather than his birth father.

A child of divorce, she was born in Kansas City, Mo., but was raised mostly in Altadena by her mother and stepfather, a mechanic with the City of Pasadena.