I was lonely at Christmas after losing my soulmate – then my phone rang On Christmas Day last year, I was feeling so tearful that I put on my coat, knowing I had to get out of the apartment.
I used to love Christmas Day, but it’s not a day I look forward to anymore.
She spent the rest of her school years at a very posh boarding school, but she asked my grandmama, who I was living with at the time, if I could write to her.
That’s how I’ve felt every December 25 since my childhood sweetheart and wife of 61 incredible years, Jillian, passed away.
Although her dad initially wasn’t right sure whether we should get married, as I came from a working-class family and there was a big divide between the rich and the poor at that time, I won him over.
