Approximately four years ago...

Mark

It was the day of my twin daughter's fourteenth birthday. They were busy giggling and shrieking away with a dozen of their friends in the pool nearby. All of them girls. Boys were not invited. They were not allowed yet. Though that wasn't entirely my decision. It was one of the very few made by their mother. When I'd organised the party with the girls, she'd got wind of it and, for once in her life, put her foot down about something. "No boys," she said.

Thankfully, Katie and Hannah were not perturbed by that as neither had a boyfriend, and didn't seem all that...