thought of me coming over out of the blue and invading her privacy the way I had.

When she came back into the room, I apologised for disturbing her and for startling her with a blast from the past. She glanced over the one of the photographs and nestled it into her arms and began to tell me the sad torrid love tale of her only daughter and grandchild. The two had been heavily in love and appeared to be happy to everyone but her daughter had hidden some secrets from her own mother. Behind hidden doors she had suffered years of abuse and had enough one day. She’d plucked up the courage to leave him and even got a restraining order against him. The restraining order only served a purpose for a while till he kidnapped both her and her child and strapped them both together in a car one day. The two of them had argued and