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I was trying hard not to let him see me cry. ’ And so I touched his face and it was for us both a fatal act of human contact because the boundaries of our connection were then intimately and radically changed. I remember the long, hot afternoon. David talked almost without stopping. At 6 o’clock visitors were turned out. I returned at an appointed hour for a strange and humid night of listening on into the very small hours. In the darkness, David wanted me to fix my hand on his face and then, for the first time since I had known him, he completely relaxed.

If you had no expectations of yourself you could easily have been left out and done nothing. Very hard to break. I think even my mother once said to me I was too big for my boots. She would have been happy, I think, if I had worked in a shop because that’s what she always wanted to do. She got that job in the fish shop and she was made up because she felt it was a bit flashier than the tailoring. And the fact that we got fish and chips free I suppose was another bonus so it is funny, isn’t it, what you think is a good job.

You know, it is a job basically, a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week job and very little importance is placed on that. If you had to pay someone to stay at home to look after children it would cost a fortune. Whatever you do is on top of, anything extra I did was on top of everything else I had to do, never in place of anything. It is still like that to some extent, still women do exactly the same thing, they are just under a different guise now. If the husband manages to pick them up a couple of times from the childminder or something.

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