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4th July 2017
08:56pm BST
Speaking to the BBC, her father Andrew said Saffie was "a huge character.""She loved dancing, music, gymnastics" The youngest Manchester attack victim, Saffie Roussos, would hv turned 9 today. Her dad pays tribute pic.twitter.com/YfMABuH8jT
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"She was just everything you could wish for in a little girl. "She loved dancing, music, gymnastics. If she wanted something, she would do it. "[She loved] fame, stardom. "I knew that Saffie would love her pictures to be on, and to be spoken about on TV."Saffie attended the concert with her mum Lisa and sister Ashlee Bromwich. Lisa was critically injured in the incident and left in a coma. She knew when she woke up that she had lost her daughter, explained Mr Roussos.
"I was dreading it. She just looked at me and said 'she's gone isn't she?', and I said 'yeah'. She goes, 'I knew'."He added that he hasn't dwelled on how or why the attack happened as it wouldn't bring his daughter back.
"It doesn't matter what I think, It doesn't matter what I feel, how much anger I've got, it doesn't matter how much love I've got, it doesn't change a thing. "It doesn't, so I haven't even thought about it because if I could think about it, analyse it, break it down, sort it out and get Saffie back I'll do it but I can't.
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