Dear Dave,
Looking back now, it feels like you’ve been in my life forever. But actually, I was an outspoken, cheeky 14-year-old when you and my mum Carol first got together. You seemed nice enough and you certainly made Mum happy, but I never thought I needed you, or indeed any father figure, in my life.
Mum and my biological dad had broken up when I was five. He worked a lot, so I don’t have too many memories of him, even when he did live with us. We moved away to Hertfordshire, and although my brother and I visited for weekends at first, eventually our relationship
