The weight of penance hung about him and he wore it calmly, if uncomfortably. Things for which his name had once stood would never entirely be the same things again - that is what he told himself, that is what he wished not to believe while believing it nonetheless.
Paul Kimmage details his past friendship with paedophile Tom Humphries and the fallout from his conviction.Īll you've got is your name, the lost man said in a lost voice.
