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Heather always looked like this very youthful but feisty woman. I remember, you know, press conferences she would
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ask questions and people would be takenback by this innocent looking young woman. We got on really well and then we
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went out for a date and it was at at the pub just the Midland Hotel just down from Parliament. We chatted and
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basically we came to the resolution which was a good one in my mind then that the age gap was too big. We talked
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quite platonically about it and we really liked each other. The age gap was too big. Always be mates, but that was
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it. And we parted. I kissed her on the cheek, then went home to my daughter who was the same age as Heather.
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>> When when when you guys started seeing each other, what was the reaction like
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from family or friends or the public? >> None really. >> I was honestly the thing that surprised
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me. Maybe they think I'm just a youngster, but I had no reaction. No, honestly, never a negative reaction, which I
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thought was great. >> You got married in uh Parliament's Green Hall in 2009. She was 24 at the time.
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You're 57. When you see you guys together, it doesn't you don't really notice it. You don't you don't Nobody
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honestly nobody's ever thought about