“I boiled for days. Not only did I hate the fact that she’d married Blake, but I hated the fact that of all the places on the planet, she’d chosen Miami. Not for a moment do I think that Amy would have made the connection. She was in her own ‘Amy bubble’ without a care for anyone other than herself.

Miami? When I had landed there thirty-five years earlier it had been about me finding freedom and fulfilment through working and experiencing the world. I have held onto that positive experience throughout my entire life, steadily improving my confidence and my self-respect no matter what. Now here was Amy, with more professional and financial power than I could ever have imagined, and what was she doing? Throwing it all away by getting hitched to some no-hoper.”