Behaving Like Adults
“Do not ask me how. It’s also known as ‘the kissing disease’ and is caused by a virus which happens to be a member of the herpes family. As if Fate hadn’t kicked enough sand in my face, she was now tipping it over my head with a bucket. (Issy has a client named Mrs Slapper, the mention of which gave the office a morning of hilarity – ‘And so, are you a London Slapper, or a Manchester Slapper?’ etc – but even Mrs Slapper didn’t have to suffer the indignity of a personal association with the Herpe...s Family.) Anyway I was glad of it. Glandular fever saved me from consciousness. Being conscious proved a waste of time. Any moment I was awake was inescapable hell. I was in shock. I took it personally. Before, it was one person. Now, it was the world. I couldn’t believe they’d do this to me, it had taken me long enough – even Stuart had failed to make me feel like this, but the Crown Prosecution Service had succeeded – for the first time, I felt like a victim. The trauma seeped into me, I was saturated with it.MoreLess
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