My Mother's Story

I first left home when I was 17 or 18 and I moved in with a girl whose real name was Marion but she liked to be called Marianne because she felt that she looked like Marianne Faithfull.

Source: W Magazine: Marianne Faithfull

My Mum and Dad came home and I told them that I was leaving home, my Dad was very disappointed and the photograph that is linked to this story shows me looking very happy at the thought of leaving home except that there had been a big argument, so it was the camera telling a lie.  When I moved out I only managed to stay gone three months because my flatmate was hardly there and I got very depressed being on my own having lived with a family of six (including me) and she was having boyfriend problems which resulted in alarm clocks being thrown through the window and the police being brought in. I had to phone my Daddy and say 'please can I come home?'

My Mother & Father (1968) 

This is the picture my Mother sent to go with her story - and this is her with my Father whom she married a few years later... This is 6 years before I was born and my Dad had hair...