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It’s a big moment for me. I’ve always been close to my parents, and having a conversation like that is huge. We’ve never really fallen out before, mainly because I’ve always gone along with whatever they’ve wanted and have never really put my head above the parapet and gone my own way.
Tom tells me it’s just the shock of things, and that they’ll come round eventually. At the end of the day, he says, who wants to lose their only daughter over something so silly and trivial? Lots of people get through lots worse.
We sit on the sofa and I lean into him, my head on his shoulder as his hand caresses my hip.
‘You know I’ll do what I can, don’t you?’ Tom says. ‘To support you. I mean, there’s not a whole lot I can do financially, but I’ll do what I can.’
‘I know. But you don’t need to do
