'Too much, too young'

1992-1996 - so Elaine had good patches and bad patches.

It was a hot summer and my boyfriend and I had lots of barbecues. Sometimes it was so mild you could still be sitting out in the garden at midnight without a jacket.

We invited Elaine and Paul over for one of our barbecues on a hot summer night. She was having a good patch, the chemotherapy was doing its job, if she hadn't been wearing a headscarf on a hot summer night you'd never have known she was ill.

We talked into the early hours.

It was a lovely night.