No more Mr Nice Guy!
Daniel was the most mild-mannered individual you could hope to meet. He came across as a bumbling clown of a man with a shy, bashful air about him. The son of a violent, alcoholic father, Daniel had spent his childhood never knowing what mood his dad would be in when he came home from the pub. He had learnt from an early age the importance of placating his father and had subsequently generated a number of rules about how he must always defer to others that he still lived by as an adult.
Daniel’s low self-esteem had made him quite depressed and as part of an effort to galvanise his activity levels he agreed to join the local amateur dramatics society. The group was due to put on a production of Robin Hood as the annual pantomime, ...
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