TRUE-LIFE
Standing by the bar, I was trying to think of a decent excuse to go home, when a familiar face appeared beside me.
‘All right, Ebony?’ said Stephen Smith.
‘Not really,’ I huffed. ‘I’m on the first date from hell.’
It was November 2016, and after years as a single parent of two kids, then 13 and 2, I’d finally dipped my toe back into dating.
Only, I’d run out of petrol on the way here, and now my date and I had nothing in common and nothing to talk about..
Awkward! Stephen started to snigger, and seeing his cheeky grin, I burst out laughing too.
Stephen, then 41, was a family
