Walton Merritt

**Diary Entry: September 12th** I was orphaned at six. My mother already had two girls and was bringing

**December 30th Evening***Ive just invited Mum and my sister over for New Years,* my husband announced

He left me with three kids and elderly parents to run off with his mistress. I couldnt stop him.

My brother drove his wife to despairthen the unthinkable happened. My brother was my role model.

**Saturday, 18th June** Emily and I had just returned from her birthday dinnera proper celebration at

Only three weeks had passed since we buried Mum, and already my brother had called in a property surveyor

**Diary Entry**“Ugh, tramp!” sneered passersby, eyeing the old woman lying in the mud.

Olivia was 32 when her 12-year-old daughter married her new 22-year-old husband. Twelve, twenty-two

A secret revealed on my wedding day: my wife has a daughter! “Simon, I didnt want to tell you this

“You threw me out of the house when I was fourteen, and now you expect me to care for you in your old age?