I arrived at the port with our baby twins to surprise my husband, who was returning from months at sea

And I have not replied to that message.

Fifteen months.

Because there is a reply, and it has to start with the fact that I had eleven weeks in which I could have handled it quietly and did not, and that the longer it ran the more people there were in it.

And I have not been able to type that out to a woman who lost her job over it.

The photograph.

There is one and I have never put it anywhere.

I took it in that terminal, at about twenty past eleven in the morning, from where I was standing, before I put my hand up.

His arm round her waist, and her case, and the pair of them laughing.

And the thing I have told about four people is that I got it on instinct and I do not know why I did it.

I had my phone out of my bag before he was through those doors.

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