The End

The long journey home, and just arriving at the outskirts of Edinburgh I get some bad news. 
Hard to think of worse news really, as every parent would probably agree. I’d imagined such a thing happening so many times, and it came so close on so many occasions, that I thought I’d somehow be able to take it stoically. That’s just so far from the case; I feel totally undone. I can’t believe I’ll never see that guy again. Never. How can that be?