Andy
My father has always said that you can not hold a man's past against him. I just assumed it was one of his throw-away phrases that he used in counselling, not a reference to his own self. I was willing to accept his indiscretions when I thought it was with some stranger, but figuring out that the woman in question may actually be my own girlfriend's mother, a woman who treated me like a son since the day I was born, that didn't sit well with me.
There was still a huge part of me that was hoping I had this all wrong, that Veronica wasn't the woman my father was referring to when he told me about his past mistakes. Our families are extremely close-knit, my mother and Veronica are best friends, and I know for a fact that it was Veronica who introduced Mum to Dad back when they were uni
