‘No, she’s a wonderful person. I’m not blaming her at all. She’s incredible—she’s full of light, completely irresistible in every way.’ ‘You’ve lost me,’ he says. ‘It’s not for me as your friend to judge the morality of how you use your body, mate, but if being with this young woman makes you happy, then I don’t see the problem. Unless’—he leans forward, holding his pint on his knee—‘you don’t believe you deserve to be happy. Then that’s a very big problem. It’s a natural expression of our humanity to seek companionship.’
