I was taken aback, says Jo, maybe a bit flattered, bowled over. I'd never once thought of him that way. I went home and as the days passed, he kept messaging me, getting so full-on and a bit stalkerish, as if he was desperate to see me.
When it happened to her two years ago, it was her adult son who had to make sense of it, and explain why she'd woken up naked beside a man she had no feelings for, blood on the bed, pain between her legs, her memory of that night a blank space.
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