As a writer and poet I often write pathos but very rarely do I truly feel it as I am writing. Today is different. Today I feel it, and because I feel it I want to write it. In my first year as the group organizer for STG I had the pleasure, and the stress, of organizing an event to celebrate the Silver Anniversary of our group. We had our first prom night. Like all prom nights we had our glamourous Prom Queen – Carol Anne.

The look of sheer joy when I told Carol Ann she had been chosen was a...