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PROLOGUE

Thursday 18 April 2013

230 pent, ‘let’s-be-discreet-but-wildly-overdra, I just want to let you know that it’s my sixtieth on the 24th of May I’m not SAYING it’s my sixtieth, obviously And keep it quiet because I’ everyone I just wanted you to keep the date free’

I panicked ‘That would be great!’ I gushed unconvincingly

‘Bridget You absolutely can’t not come’

‘Well, the thing is’

‘What?’

‘It’s Roxster’s thirtieth birthday that night’

Silence at the end of the phone

‘I ether by then, but, if we are, it would be’ I tailed off

‘I’ve just put “no children” on the invites’

‘He’ll be thirty by then!’ I said indignantly

‘I’ your toy boy I’ll get a bouncy castle! Back on air Mustrunloveyoubye!’

Tried to turn on telly to see if Talitha had indeed, as so often, been callinga film clip Jabbed confusedly at buttons like aon a TV these days require three rened by thirteen-year-old technogeeks, co everyone else thinking they’re the only person in the world who doesn’t understand what the buttons are for, thus wreaking psychological dalobal scale

Threw remotes petulantly onto sofa, at which TV rando i the dark-haired Liverpool footballer who has the anger- probleh for rather different reasons than on the pitch

Right No need for panic – will simply assess pros and cons of Roxster/Talitha party issue in calm and mature manner:

PROS OF TAKING ROXSTER TO PARTY

It would be terrible not to go to Talitha’s She has been my friend since our