No escape
Dec 30, 2021
4 minutes
Debbie Maddox, 53, Warrington, Cheshire
Standing at the bar, I spotted someone familiar waving me over.
‘Goodness, how many years has it been?’ I smiled to Stephen Doherty, then 39.
It was the end of 2003, and Stephen and I first met when I was 18 – a lifetime ago now.
Stephen was well known around town as a charmer, a ladies’ man.
He’d moved to Australia soon after we’d first met, so our friendship had never really taken off.
Catching up now, I learnt Stephen had married, divorced, had two young children and moved back to the
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