I put my case in the luggage space and we found two seats together. We had a two hour journey ahead of us and I had no idea what to say, so, as the tr...in pulled slowly out of Birmingham, we sat, silently, with her hand resting in mine on my lap. After a while, Sam turned her face away from the darkness of the winter countryside flashing by and said, “Anna, Why did this happen?” “What do you mean, exactly?” “Why did you seduce me?” For the second time that day I felt as though a hot knife. Her room of Year 10s, now 15 years old, had initially struggled to understand the complex motifs and symbolism of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. But one boy, Jeremy, had excelled. Jeremy had recently blossomed from a slightly weak and sickly child into a confident and attractive young man. His classmates had teased him mercilessly for writing a poem in his Valentine’s Day card to his favourite English teacher (most of the others would just send her a text message with a photo of their erect genitalia. "It means Daddy and Melissa are going to get married and that Melissa will be living with us always," Lydia said - as always the perfect communicator and explainer of the world to her little brother. I have no doubt he got through the loss of his mother so well thanks to Lydia."Does that mean she will be my Mummy now?" he asked - a pretty sharp question for a 7 year old.I squatted in front of him. "That's for you and Melissa to work out," I said. "No one can replace Mummy for you and the girls,. After a while it became a reoccurring pattern. The guy would bitch about how his wife was always trying to change him and that he could never do anything that pleased her. His wife would bitch about how he wasn't paying her the attention like he had when they were dating and that he never talked with her anymore. She did not understand that men have trouble understanding the concept of emotional intimacy, so she complained that he would try to have sex with her every time she brought up the.