Walking Thoughts

  Ian dear, I’m so deeply sorry about Des. Losing the person you shared 27 years with is shattering. What the two of you had was real, lasting love. In by Des’s own words, you made him very happy.  You have always been close to my heart, even across the years when contact between us was simply unavailable. my absence was never indifference, and never a lack of care. It was the consequence of circumstances that took all my strength simply to endure.  You were never absent from my thoughts. When my mum died, I found your letters from the 90s and relived the warmth and connection there was between us, and the weight of what followed. Life took me very far away in those years for survival, just as Childline had advised in 1986.  to get help for the childhood trauma. Taking that advice cost me contact with you, and everything and everybody I had ever known . Though it is distant now, I do remember the wrench .  In a world without mobile phones, email, or social media...

  Ian dear, I’m so deeply sorry about Des. Losing the person you shared 27 years with is shattering. What the two of you had was real, lasting love. In by Des’s own words, you made him very happy.  You have always been close to my heart, even across the years when contact between us was simply unavailable.  You were never absent from my thoughts. When my mum died, I found your letters from the 90s and relived the warmth and connection there was between us, and the weight of what followed. Life took me very far away in those years for survival, just as Childline had advised in 1986. go to university to get help for the severe childhood trauma. Taking that advice cost me contact with you, and everything and everybody I had ever known . Though it is distant now, I do remember the wrench .  In a world without mobile phones, email, or social media, disappearing was never a choice, it was the reality of survival.  I always hoped you would find someone I remember you s...

  Ian darling. I’m so very sorry to hear of your loss. You and des gave each other 27 years of happiness. In Des’s   own words, You made him so very happy. When my mum died I found your letters, Which I guess were written around 1990 to 1994. I was filled with Wanderers to what had happened in those missing years. We are the last generation to have had to leave absolutely everything and everyone we ever knew behind in order to go to university. It was Childline who it advise I go to university and that they I would find help for being getting raped as a little girl. And I spent five years and during all sorts of sexual abuse getting there. In our time, there were no mobile phones, No email, No Internet, No Facebook. And of course I had no. Home. Dad had changed the locks, And mum had already left, and did not yet have a home of her own. So for five years, I was of no fixed abode with no permanent address. As it turns out there was no magic cure for childhood gang rape at unive...

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