That is four months of knowing.
My mother called me a lowly soldier in front of two hundred people, and she was vile, and she was also looking at a woman who had driven two hours to walk into her sister's wedding in a uniform nobody had asked for.
I have said to four people that I wore it because it is who I am.
It is who I am. It is also a thing that stops a room, and I knew that, and I wanted the room stopped before anybody opened their mouth.
She got her line in first. That is the only part she won.
My mother.
She has not apologised and she is not going to and I have stopped waiting.
She rang me in the November and the call lasted six minutes and the whole of it was about what people at that wedding had said to her afterwards.
