When I was thirteen my best friend was Andy. We were in the same class at school. Ten years later, in 1994, Andy and I were on holiday in Miami, in the USA. One evening there was a party in our hotel. There weren't any other English people at the party-they were all American. There was one very beautiful woman at the party called Penny. She wasn't very friendly at first-but two years later we were husband and wife! Our son, Jason, was born four years later in Bristol, where we live now. It was his thirteenth birthday yesterday.