The Question

(will make more sense if you read The Letter, The Stepand The Fistfirst)

Of course, she’ll always be in my heart, but I’m sometimes tempted to say that she was my mum. Things change, people grow and I’m no longer the kid I was back then. She was the touchstone in every matter of my heart, the source of every comfort and I was at centre of something embracing, protecting and warm – a family.

And it’s not that she doesn’t love menow – I know she does because she tells me so. And I know that she...