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in England I could use my words to sell myself to her family, here I could only<br />

use my actions.<br />

I was about to be become a mime, how the hell do you mime ‘am going to be a<br />

good father and look after your daughter’?<br />

I didn’t know either.<br />

We passed a sprawling hotel and a Pepsi and Mintos factory then turned into a<br />

field that had porter cabins plonked down in the centre of it. On closer<br />

inspection they were closer to chalets but this was home to Elly, her Mum and<br />

Marvin. I tried to find something nice to say while I surveyed the surroundings<br />

but Elly made her way past some kittens who were playing and up the stairs to a<br />

door.<br />

“Don’t touch them.” She warned as I bent down to stroke them.<br />

I didn’t ask why and just skipped up the steps. She took off her shoes outside<br />

and I did the same and then we entered without knocking. You never knock at<br />

your parent’s house but it felt strange just drifting in. It was a small and dated<br />

abode and as you entered there was a kitchen off to the right, a room to the left<br />

and then four rooms at the back.<br />

Her Mum was busying herself in the kitchen and when she came out it wasn’t a<br />

long lost embrace it was a quick hello, she looked me over, a smile and then<br />

back to her cooking. Elly led me off into her bedroom. <strong>The</strong>re was no bed, only a

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