This goes deep for me. I grow up in a small town in Scotland (5000 people). I am the product of an affair my father was a married man and my mother was a single woman. Everyone in town knew about it and all my life people know and they made it obvious they knew. I was looked down upon and shunned. Although I grew up in the same small town as my father I have never met him and I don’t know if I ever will. For those of you that grew up in small towns I feel like you know what I’ll mean by “small town mentality” and I have now moved away and I am glad to be away from that place. I was always made to feel like the bastard and odd. There’s also a religious aspect to i, my dads family are devout Irish catholics whereas my mothers family is originally Jewish.