CHAPTER 11

The Bailey family was re-united early the following week. Karen and baby Sharron came home to 36C Meadow Road. Colin had persuaded Fat Eric to let him have leave to be with his family for the first few days at least but his boss was adamant that Colin report back for work on the Monday night.

Karen and Sharron had bonded well enough in the hospital but Kath Smith noticed when she dropped in on one of her very frequent visits that Colin doted on Sharron and that she seemed to reserve her best behaviour just for him.

“Proper Daddy’s girl that one’s going to be,” she told Susan when she came round to the flat to pick her up on her way home from an evening shift at Graceland’s.

Kath Smith was right. Sharron’s first beaming smile was reser...

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