Twins aged 10 have written an advertisement for someone to care for them after the death of their mother who is suffering from cancer. "Kids and dog for hire. Life-term contract," the advert by Lauren Mills and her brother Ashton says.
Tobi Mills, 43, a single mother, backed the children's appeal, which included the stipulation: "Sad gits need not apply."
Ms Mills, of Blackbird Leys, Oxford, said from hospital: "We are a very upfront family who face up to things and talk about everything together.
"They are good kids and I want to find the right person or couple to take them on. I don't want the 'puppy syndrome' where someone feels sorry for them and takes them without thinking it through."
The advertisement was placed in local newspapers by the Oxfordshire County Council.
Tobi Mills died in June '98. The successful applicant, who became the new foster mother, came from the Oxford area. The twins spent the last weeks of their mother's life between their new family and their dying mother.
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