“Luke. It was good to hear from you after all these years. I miss you too. I’ve been thinking back to the time when you were eighteen and I told you about me. You were very kind.

“We went back to your house and listened to Pet Shop Boys songs in your bedroom. You took off your shirt and I couldn’t take my eyes away.

“A few days later, you gave me a CD single called Getting Away with It by Electronic. I heard it played on the radio recently and the words jumped out.

‘However, I look it’s clear to see, that I love you more than you love me.’

“And I realised that all those decades ago, I had missed the point.

“I think that we were once in love with each other but were too afraid to say.”