Adrian
By the time I married Jennifer, I was ready to be a father. My proposal even included a bit about starting a family. I said: “Will you marry me, and can we have lots of kids?” I’d never felt like that until I met her. Having a family was an expression of us both being in love. I had no idea what to expect from fatherhood. My own childhood wasn’t always easy. It was dominated by one event — being sent to boarding school.
My parents were abroad a lot of the time and I missed them, I missed being at home. There was no telephone, so the only contact we had was those blue airmail envelopes. If there were no letters, I assumed
