Gliding on the bright red lipstick, I blew the mirror a kiss.
I have to make a good impression, I thought, before I headed to a party at my mum’s house.
Celebrating my mum Tinja’s 50th birthday in 2018, it’d be the first time I’d meet Mum’s new man Juha’s son Samuli, then 23.
Excitingly, Mum, a laboratory assistant at a medical centre, had met Juha, then 56, at work a few months earlier.
Following a heart scan, Juha asked the receptionist for my mum’s name and number, and
