‘I’m here,’ I say.
‘You mean, Tim?’
‘Yes.’
The identity issue is big. Hers, mine, others.
She says, ‘I say something, you don’t say anything back – I don’t understand.’
In the supermarket, I met someone who used to visit Anna through an organisation called Companions that set up such relationships.
I said, ‘Come and see us.’
‘Last time, she seemed to have difficulty relating to me, I thought it might be better not to come.’
With that logic, Anna would now be seeing no-one.