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Your name is…
Your name is…
Your name is Nigel Fleming.
Wrong.
Your name is...
Your name is...
Your name is Nigel Tanner.
Half correct.
Your name is…
Your name is…
Your name is Frank Fleming.
Stop playing games, Frank.
You know what your name is.
Frank Tanner.
Francis Algernon Tanner. FAT, for short.
And Stevie Wonder has taken you back, Frank.
You were thirty-nine years old.
You remember your thirty-ninth birthday party. It was the seventh day of October. The year was 1984. Party poppers. A mammoth cake baked by your lovely wife Mrs Tanner and topped with melted Galaxy. A card from your dear children played ‘Congratulations’ by Cliff Richard when you opened it.
Good memories.
The great memories you reserve for Sheila. She entered your life that year – and vanished so
