Graduates were rare species when the author completed his education. To graduate on the ladder of English intelligence is to leave an institute of academia, with a degree, long after completing primary education. It was not to be for this writer.

Never graduating was no big loss as the author found parodic inspiration in the war poet, Laurence Binyon; "We who are young, will never grow old; and at the first going down on her, and in the morning, she will always remember it".

After meeting the girl of his dreams, a relative discovered Stephen had never graduated, which in middle-class terms meant he lacked a proper job; otherwise, he was not an accountant, solicitor, teacher, doctor; or a paid clerk to any of them!

The girlfriend's distant relative was the remnant of a bygone age when employment in the media was frowned upon. But Stephen was never disappointed by missing out on university. Bereft of graduation he compensated himself with a well-paid job in the blossoming broadcast television industry and stayed with it for his entire working life.

This explicit narration was inspired by Stephen's partially Jewish grandchildren. They asked what traditional romance was like in 'the dinosaur age' of his youth, before the incursion of gender neutrality. "Grandad, how did you meet Grandma Alison and did you have something for the weekend?" His story comes flowing with lyrical ejaculations!

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