my "father's who could kill me without issue" misfortune makes more sense if you know that my first ever girlfriend as a clueless teenager, who i dated for 3 years and why i ended up in Cambridge, her father was an Egyptian man who had diplomatic immunity from his job working for the Kuwaiti Embassy - his wife who knew about me agreed that he should never find out that i existed.
At one point at the age of 17 i had to escape half dressed across two rooftops from her bedroom as he'd come home from work early.