So in Coronation Street Audrey has just contacted Gails dad and told him he has a 50 year old daughter. People in my office find this incrediably unlikely but it reminded my of a story from my family.
My mum doesn’t know her father and on the approach of her 50th birthday decided she’d like to contact him. She knew who he was and everything and so got in touch. He reponded…but I’m not your father; didn’t your mother tell you?’ No being the obvious answer!
Anyway the story is that my grandmother was a nurse in a hospital where she met my grandfather who was in hospital for a hernia operation. After he was out they started courting and went away to a seaside cottage used by the nurses…there something happended and my grandmother became pregnant with twins! As to the something- it was the first time for both of them and he says ‘I wouldn’t call it sex- with the operation and everything’ . Anyway after my nana got pregnant he did the decent thing and married her and they had sex. Once he started having sex he thought well- if this is it then that wasn’t! The twins were born early as is the way with twins. Doubts filled his mind.
He asked my grandmother for a blood test to determine paternity. She said no- how could you not trust me? Arguments and violence ensued and he eventually moved out leaving her with 6 month old twins. He did the decent thing and kept his reasons for leaving to himself…in the small village where they lived he was outcast for abandoning his children and young wife. Nobody would have him and he was alone for 40 years before finding love again.
My mother had a DNA test which showed that he was actually her father and they began a sort of friendship. My grandmother maintains that all men are bastards; although she did remarry.
