Me: If you were here at home, back in time, Ants, we would have been sneaking bits of the Christmas ham and drinking champagne, then you would have eventually gone to bed and I would stay up for hours, wrapping presents to put into his pillow-case, leaving the empty pillowcase on the end of his bed and secretly filling the identical pillow-case (blue) with as many presents as I could fit into it! You thought I was extravagant but I was just doing what my parents did and, anyway, it was Ming, our only child; I wanted to give him the world + lego.
Anthony: It is quite common for middle-aged women to feel a bit lost when their children grow up.
Me: Straight to the point as usual, Ants – I miss you.
Anthony: I miss you too, Jules, but I mostly miss seeing Ming growing into a man of my calibre.
Me: Your arrogance is breathtaking, Ants!
Anthony: Jules?
Me: Ants?
Anthony: I am with you.
Me: Okay.
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