Walton Merritt

**At the Table with Parents… Who Didn’t Recognise Me** This isn’t fiction, not a film plot or some urban legend.

She is my mother… Yet how it stings to hear nothing but reproaches from her. I am forty-one.

“Love Knows No Age: The Story of Eleanor” Years ago, when a tall, graceful, and unbelievably

Between me and his past—there’s a child he never wanted to love. Me and James got married when we weren’t

“Couldn’t care for her own mother, but suddenly has the energy to take me to court!” When I was a little

So, back in July, like every summer, I took the kids to my parents’ place in the countryside.

Because of one argument with my daughter, I lost the right to see my granddaughter… I walked the familiar

“A sister? No thanks, I’ve decided enough is enough.” These days, I don’t answer the door

**Wednesday, 15th June** Today marked my daughter Emily’s wedding—a small gathering of about 35, mostly

When Emily first saw those two lines on the pregnancy test, she was sitting on the cold bathroom tiles