"It felt like the first time somebody had actually SEEN me."
Reblogged from Hayley Webster @bookshaped https://twitter.com/bookshaped I'm going to write a thread about the nicest Christmas gift I ever received. I was nine years old. I think it cost the person who gave it to me about £1.50. My sister was nearly five. We lived with my dad. My mum lived the other side of town with her boyfriend. Her and my dad were Not In A Good Place. She still had a key to the house and would sometimes use it, unexpectedly. My dad had a girlfriend I really liked. She was a teacher. She drove a green 2CV. She took us orienteering. She had let us make make menus for Christmas dinner in Black and blue and silver. (I wasn't keen on this colour scheme, but I didn't say anything, because she was really trying) She didn't live with us, though. It was the year the Snowman was really big. I loved that film, and the music and had to be a 'snowman at the dance' in the school play. Anyway, we didn't see my mum for chun