Do we all have daddy/mummy issues?

We discuss a long and drawn out decline in the health of a loved one. What made our first memories and when they 'started'. We exchange dead parent jokes. We decide when it is best for a parent to die. We ruminate on the thickness of Corey Taylor's neck. I gain a better understanding of exactly what lead to the death of Andrew's mum and how he had a lot of growing up to do from a very tender age.

Andrew tells me that there was little time for feeling properly bereaved; he went back to school for the afternoon after his mum's funeral. Andrew ponders on whether his journey through the education system thus far would have been different with the support of his mum. He also tells me that no real surrogate mother filled the gap his mum left.