A TWIN who was more than 1300 miles away in Spain when she was told her sister had just hours to live faced a frantic journey home to be in time to say goodbye.
Melissa Tennant, 21, from Glasgow, was on holiday in Marbella when she learned her twin Nicole was just hours from losing a life-long battle with cystic fibrosis.
Ms Tennant arrived at the city's Gartnavel Hospital just hours before Nicole died early on Friday.
She spoke to her twin, and is convinced she felt her move in response.
Ms Tennant said: "She could hear me, she definitely could. I said "I love you" and she twitched. She knew better than to die before I got back to see her."
The family are preparing for Nicole's funeral and are determined to remember her as a positive, funny and sweet person who fought cystic fibrosis to the end.
As well as her twin, she is survived by her father Stewart, 59, mother Agnes, 56, brother Gary, 20, and sisters Laura, 40, and Kelly, 38.
Ms Tennant said: "Nicole was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a baby but all the way through primary we were very similar. It was in high school that our lives became very different. She was in and out of hospital and taking up to 30 pills a day and on oxygen 24/7."
She added that her twin remained positive and funny despite her illness.
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