That is what I was doing when I say I was waiting. Not holding two babies and watching for a man. One of them was in a sling and I had my phone in my hand.
And the ship was fifty minutes late, and I stood there for fifty minutes with that phone in my hand.
And the ten seconds after she took Opal off me, which I have never described.
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He said “Mum” and then nothing happened for a while.
And in those seconds there was a thing available to me that I did not take.
I could have stopped.
His mother had Opal. He had gone the colour he goes. Jana was already half a step back with her case. The whole of it had landed and it had landed completely.
And what I did was say one more thing.
I will not put the whole sentence down. It was about four seconds long and it was about what sort of man his mother had raised, and it was said to him in front of her.
