Goodnight Sweethear
Staring at my phone, an empty feeling in my stomach crept in as my bank balance glared back at me.
£30, I thought.
That’s all I have.
It was New Year’s Eve 2009, and I was sat in a council house with two young children and no furniture, wondering how on earth I’d ended up here.
Just 12 months earlier, I’d been a senior executive in retail, had a lovely big house, flashy cars, and a happy family.
Now, my life had been turned upside down, and I guess you could say it all started with a deer.
That March, as a pair of startled eyes stared at me, I knew disaster was coming.
It all happened in a matter of seconds – driving home from work, the deer jumping out in – swerving off the road and coming to an abrupt stop.
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