Sally Hepworth

Yes.

And I did have that difficulty which was to do with all of the horrible stuff about ending a relationship.

But my life outside of that, I thought, well, this is good.

I actually have got quite a good landscape.

And...

I was thinking more and more that why is romantic love the pinnacle?

I have got these women in my life, I mean so many, but particularly the ones that I've been friends with since I was 10.

They're my life partners.

They're the ones who have been with me before any of us met our partners.

They are with me after partners.

They've been with me, you know, through birth and we've all been together.

Recently one of those friends, her father died and I remember I went up with her when she did the eulogy and we looked back and I saw all of our girlfriends were in the front row and I thought it's something –

moved me about it.

I thought usually, you know, you see the family and the parents and whatever.

And no, that was us.

That was, and it made complete sense to me.

They were, we've always been a family.

And, and even if there was and is, and there now is a romantic love again.

My life partners are those women.

Are there any men in that number?