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17th May 2013: Roy Cropper had been devastated when, as a child, his father St. John had abandoned his family. He withdrew into himself and built a protective shell between him and an outside world that he felt he had little in common with. That divide was breached in May 2013 when a long-delayed letter from his father finally reached Roy after being lost for two years, asking for contact. His mother, Sylvia Goodwin, sensed trouble but wife Hayley pushed for Roy to visit his father, much against his will. He discovered he's died three months previously, thinking that his son wanted nothing to do with him. Roy, emotionally battered, quietly but firmly told Hayley that he blamed her for disrupting the contentment that he felt he'd achieved after so many years.
 * For more information see Episode 8128 (17th May 2013).