She left him in the November.
She came to my door on the eleventh of February.
She stood on that step and asked whether there was any way she could be allowed to be something to Marnie.
Not a mother. She was extremely clear. She used the word "something."
And I said yes on the doorstep without going inside and without thinking about it, and it is the only quick decision I have made in eighteen months that I have never once revisited.
She comes on Tuesdays and every other Saturday. Marnie calls her Lolo because that is what came out at about thirteen months.
Charlie is eight and has decided Lorna is his aunt and there is no arguing with him.
Danny.
He did not see her for fourteen months.
He rang me nine times in the first fortnight and I did not answer, and then he wrote, and I read it and did not reply.
