"It's now time that I told you...why I went so far away.. I had to pack up, and go son...I just couldn't bear to stay... I really did love your mum....but things were not working out.. and it was better for us all...that I didn't hang about.. I often thought about you son...many times throughout my life.. you stayed my only child...and I never found a wife.. I didn't find true happiness....as my health began to go.. alcohol was my demon...it destroyed me!.....as you now know."