But Holmes had taken his role as manager very seriously and had tried hard to obtain the wages owed to Yomah Oil's employees.
Had they done so their son would still be alive. Over the following months they wished over and over again that they had left Burma at the same time as Stanley Hunter. Then remembrance and grief would sweep over them. Habitually they would turn to see what he was up to look up in response to another child's cry, or reach down for his hand that was no longer held out to them. On the journey home they had instinctively looked for Norman, expecting to see him come running.
They went to stay with Maggie's parents having no money, nowhere to live and no child to brighten their days. On a bitter November day, Arthur and Maggie arrived back in Gateshead on what should have been Norman's fourth birthday. Never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
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