No Mum

We were looking at the “Biggest Paedophile Ring Smashed” on the front of the Age.

"You know your father was a paedophile!" said Lottie.

"What?" I said.

"Well, he had all of those pictures hidden away up in his cupboard. He always just seemed to want to look at their bottoms. I never understood why."

"He didn’t have pictures of children, though?"

"No." Surprised look. "Not of children. Of women, usually with big breasts."

"So he wasn’t a paedophile then? This article is about the exploitation of children. He just had porn."

"When I used to find them, I used to throw them out," she said. "Get rid of them. Out of the house. Disgusting things!"