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But Diane remained fixated on Dave, the first man whom she’d ever been orgasmic with. She knew that he’d never wanted a family so suggested that they could get married and that she’d keep her children out of his way. Dave reminded her that he had no intention of leaving his wife, but this was a message which Diane chose not to hear. In September 1982, she gave the children’s father full custody and began to study at night school for a pre-med course, but gave it up as she wasn’t able to spend any time with Dave. That same month, she gave him a sexually-transmitted disease which she’d contracted during a previous relationship and he ended the affair. Hysterical, Diane grabbed her ex-husband’s gun from his house and threatened to shoot herself.

A few days later, Diane mounted an all-out attempt to get Dave back. She had his name tattooed on her arm and said that this meant that she was permanently his woman. She came to work bra-less and flirted outrageously. Soon he restarted the affair. Ecstatic, she sent him handwritten poems and cards and letters, the hallmarks of a lovelorn teenager rather than the 27-year-old mother that she actually was.

In January 1983, Steve moved house and the children went back to live with Diane. She told Dave that, if he moved in with her, she’d get a full-time nanny. In the same time frame, she opened her own surrogacy clinic in town. The following month, she asked Dave who he loved best, her or his wife. He said the latter, and Diane became so violent that he finished with her again.

Diane took this incredibly badly and started phoning his home and workplace on a daily basis. Within weeks they had reconciled and he gave her a signal that they were serious by getting a matching tattoo. In April, she moved to Springfield, Oregon, on the understanding that he would soon join her there. Her parents could babysit – ideally permanently – for the children, and she and Dave could get Springfield postal routes.

But, free of Diane’s influence, Dave decided that he wanted to reconcile with his second wife. He began to return Diane’s letters and gifts, sending them back unopened, marked ‘return to sender.’ Though her post woman’s job kept her busy during the daytime, she turned to marijuana and alcohol to get through the lonely nights. She returned to Arizona at the end of April to try and win Dave back but he said that he ‘didn’t want to be a daddy,’ that it was over. He drove away before she could create another scene. She wrote to him ‘Do you ache for me in the same way that I ache for you?’ On another occasion, she wrote that ‘the kids are terribly independent and require very little care.’ It was a sociopathic statement, given that her youngest child was three years old.

For the first half of May, Diane brooded about how she could get her lover back when he so clearly didn’t want a readymade family. If only the children didn’t exist…