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Version: 2019-12-18
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 Chapter Twenty-One: Good and Bad News
6 Chapter Twenty-Two: Adoption
7 Chapter Twenty-Three: Photographs
8 Chapter Twenty-Four: Break My Heart
9 Chapter Twenty-Five: Unsettled
10 Chapter Twenty-Six: Court Case
11 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Retiring?
12 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Leaving
13 Chapter Twenty-Nine: Unexpected News
14 Suggested topics for reading-group discussion
15 Cathy Glass
17 Praise for Cathy Glass
18 About the Publisher
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Chapter Twenty-One
Our holiday was everything we’d hoped for. Endless days of warm sunshine, clear blue skies, azure sea, golden sands, delicious food and buckets of the holiday spirit that makes people smile. Having said that, taking a child on holiday is obviously different to adults going away, as children need to be supervised the whole time, and large parts of the day are built around what they want to do. But Paula and I didn’t mind. It was a delight to see Oskar so carefree and enjoying himself. Paula, away from her college work, had time to chill on a sunbed too. Not having to cook was a luxury for me. We were all-inclusive, so breakfast, lunch and dinner were provided, buffet-style,
