Landed

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Landed
Tim Pears
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Genres: Fiction
April 2002  Statement refers to marriage and children.
Myself, respondent, 41 years old. Up until 1998 had been with now estranged wife for ten years.
Solicitor said to keep a record, see. Had enough of courts, I had, but hardly begun.
 In my mind we had a successful marriage and a happy family life. Believe that if it had not been for the accident we would all be together.
Dog flew across the road in front of us. Put my foot on the brake. We struck. The car spun.
Wife blamed me. She had the ri
...ght.
 Wife. In my mind, cross my heart. Last week I saw a flock of plump, raucous starlings, in the middle of them was one bird of a different species. Lovely yellow wagtail. First saw Mel when she came into a pub I’d gone to. She was with a bunch of her girlfriends. Could hardly take my eyes off her.
Her mates a kind of guard around her. That’s what it looked like. Went back every night for months, and I never did like pubs. She was there twice. I wasn’t one for talking, see. Didn’t want to scare her off.
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