wednesday morning at five o clock as the day begins silently closing her bedroom door leaving the note that she hoped would say more she goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief quietly turning the back door key stepping outside she is free she is leaving home she s leaving home after living alone for so many years father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown picks up the letter that s lying there standing alone at the top of the stairs she breaks down and cries to her husband daddy our baby s gone why would she treat us so thoughtlessly how could she do this to me she is leaving home she s leaving home after living alone for so many years friday morning at nine o clock she is far away waiting to keep the appointment she made meeting a man from the motor trade she is having fun something inside that was always denied for so many years she s leaving home 