Okay, so now is probably a good enough time as any to tell you about Lucy. Someone who is going to play a pretty central role in things from this point on. She was our eldest child. Jo and I had met at college. We'd fallen in love pretty fast. In fact, Jo had let me f**k her on our first date; a little tidbit I never failed to remind her of. For a few years, my nickname for her was 'Slutty'. That had to stop when Lucy got a bit older and started to repeat the word. Jo always denied being a lady of easy moral virtue, simply stating that she just knew I was the 'one' and she saw no need in waiting.
We'd been together about six months when she got pregnant with Lucy. As Bill Haslam and his wife would also discover a few years later, the pill is not a hundred percent effective. I remember whe
