SUSAN 1976
It's 1976, I am 28. The less said about Susan the better – I wasted 5 years of my life when I could have had a real girlfriend. We both worked in Howell Killick Partridge Amis architectural practice, and she gradually sucked me into the boyfriend role, but without the sex, playing on my loneliness. She turned out to be a lesbian using me for camouflage. And no, it wasn't an equal exchange. Lonely men beware – I think this is more common than is realised, I have subsequently seen two or three examples.