Three weeks ago, something very strange happened. I got a text from one of my oldest friends – a groomsman at our wedding, who I’ve known since I was 16 – to say that he’d found my blog. This blog. While my brain desperately tried to process the information (and my heart froze for the best part of 10 minutes), he gleefully explained that a chance reference to ‘The Other Livvy’ on someone else’s site had rapidly led him to her, and of course then to me.
“Don’t worry though,” he signed off. “Your secret is as safe as it ever was ?”
An attempt at reassurance, no doubt (and a sincere one), but his message stayed with me that night and intermittently throughout the week, as I tried to decide how I felt about this sudden breach of the admittedly flimsy wall between ‘Exhibit A’ and the rest of my life.