This need not be the end.

[Barry]

There is something I forgot to mention.

I have a large colourful tattoo on my leg of a tree rooted in rock with 4 birds flying over it (it covers my lower leg). I had this done about a year ago and designed it with the help of the tattoo artist. No one has one quite like it.

At the time, I saw W and I as the rock, the tree was our lives, and the four birds are for my children. I looked at it last night and realised that it's I alone who must be the rock now, the tree is still MY life but W is only one branch of it, not the trunk.
There are many other branches.