Pure Magic: The Mother-Daughter Bond Page #5

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What are you saying? It's not true.

If I'd had the advantages that you'd had...

God, I wouldn't be in this mess now.

Advantages?

What advantages did I have? Me?

Right. You had a really nice house...

a very good husband...

a nice little job, lots of free time.

You know, kids at school.

If I had that free time....

I mean, what did you do?

You just sat on your ass all day...

watching the f***ing telly.

I was unhappy.

All my life.

I've never been strong.

And it was all too much for me.

-Look, let's forget about you for a second.

-What?

What about me and what I'm left with?

Darling, you're healthy, you're intelligent.

I want him to be with me.

Who? That man, the builder?

Darling, he's rough,

with no qualifications or money--

-That is what I want.

-You can do better than him.

-I love him.

-Him!

Darling, you don't.

-Why?

-He doesn't really live with his wife.

He doesn't really have

a relationship with her.

-He lives outside in a van.

-Heavens.

And he can't leave because he's got a son.

He's got this autistic son

that he absolutely adores.

He'd do anything for him.

You know, Darren is a gorgeous man,

he's a lovely man.

But he's just going through a lot

at the moment, a lot of turmoil.

He's just in a mess, you know.

Perhaps you could, sort of,

get talking to him, you know...

and find out how he's feeling...

about me.

Please.

I'll try.

-ls it ready yet?

-What? No, not yet.

-Here.

-I'm starving.

Chocolate! Thanks.

-I did not give you that, right?

-Okay.

Hello.

I've seen you about,

but we haven't met properly.

I'm Darren.

I spoke to your husband just for a minute.

-I'm sorry, I'm very sorry.

-Yes, thank you.

I've got to go and pick up my boy...

'cause my wife's with her sister.

You're married.

For longer than I can remember.

Not that I can remember anything.

Who am l?

What are you doing with Paula?

How can you ask that?

Do you want some tea?

Yes, please.

-Do you ever work for anyone else?

-Not if I can help it.

I worked in shops for years.

-Shoe shops.

-Really?

Well, everybody needs shoes.

A few pairs, at least.

Not an awful lot of people

not wearing shoes.

What else do people have to have,

apart from shoes?

I suppose if you could work that out,

you could make an awful lot of money.

-What do you think?

-I don't know. Love?

That's why I'm not rich.

-I'd like to show you these.

-ls that Toots?

Wait, is that him?

That's very funny. Very funny.

Oh, sweetheart.

I found something the other day,

in one of my father's old jackets.

It was just a shopping list my mother

had written for him in her own handwriting.

At the time, it just became...

the most valuable thing

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