Complex sentence: Bernadette first became involved with a 12 year old girl named Rachael in 1982 who suffered from cancer from the age of six, Bernadette took on the everyday tasks for the family in order to allow Rachael to spend her last days at home with her mother.
Split into simpler sentences: Bernadette first became involved with a 12 year old girl named Rachael in 1982 who suffered from cancer from the age of six. She took on the everyday tasks for the family in order to allow Rachael to spend her last days at home with her mother.