I may be remembering this wrong, but there was an entry in the pilots log from one of the two planes that dropped the first atom bombs, either Enola Gay or Bockscar, where the pilot breaks off in his writing and says

"Excuse me while I extinguish the lives of 50,000 people"

Tonight, If of course I was a pilot, and if of course I was flying a mission (which would mean I would be thousands of feet above the destruction and removed from any feelings of human suffering) I would probably write -

"Excuse me while I destroy one little girls world"

Tonight is the night that we tell our daughter that our marriage is over. I know it's been left too long, but there were things to be realised and accepted by the adults first.

I would rather do almost anything, anything other than hurt her.

But as I have recently been honest with the women in my life I love or loved, it has to be done. Because I love her most of all.