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Reg Trotter was a bully. He had been even as a boy. If he didn't get own way he'd thump someone smaller than him. Never anyone that was able to fight back.
Ted refused to see it. His only boy being a bullying little weasel. Violet wasn't much better when he was a boy. She saw it when he got older but it was too late then.
But she loved him nonetheless. A mother's love, if it's true, never switched off. She had hoped he would come back. Be a dad to Del and Rodney. At least be there when she was dying, yet he hadn't.
Violet hoped when people remembered her they'd think of her grandchildren and not her son. Because she got it wrong somewhere for him to be this way.