La vida

Listen, the fatherinlaw said stiffly to James, we took you into the family, we treat you like one of

When I turned fifteen, my parents decided they absolutely needed another child. My brother James arrived

**Diary Entry 19th October, 2023** “Look who finally decided to show up!” bellowed David Thompson.

When I turned fifteen, Mum and Dad decided they absolutely had to have another kid. So my little brother

I am sixty and live in Birmingham. I never imagined that after twenty years of quiet the past would return

Many years ago, in a quiet corner of London, a memory unfolded that still lingers in my mind. “

We had to swap the locks just to keep my motherinlaw from treating our flat like her own home.

My daughterinlaw asked me to stop visiting their home so often. I obeyed and stopped going but one day

**Diary Entry** I stood in the doorway of the banquet hall, a bouquet of white roses in my hands, unable

Im sixty, living in Birmingham, and never in my wildest teenage fantasies did I imagine that after twenty