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That made me both laugh and feel very sad at the same time. What a wonderful friend Jane was, especially when you needed her at teachers' training college. I couldn't have survived with all that booze - I've always been a rubbish drinker! I'm so glad that she found you again in later life, but how sad that she died too soon.

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Thanks for reading and for your thoughts, Gina. Sending my very best to you and yours x

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What a lovely tribute to your friend. I can relate to your college time! I went to Bradford teacher training college and life was full of student union bar and the curry house across the road x

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Thanks for reading, and your comment, Sue. Times were very different then, weren't they?

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Wonderful share Sue, the value of friends.

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Thank you Harry, it was your piece on your friend, was it Kelvin, which inspired me to remember Jane in writing.

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Yes indeed and Kelvin, who you know also died too soon, would be very pleased. I'm meeting another friend of long-standing tomorrow in London for a stroll, a beer and much conversation. I'm going to start that conversation by telling him how much I appreciate his friendship.

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Excellent 👌 hope you have a lovely day together.

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Love that you two fell in with a bad crowd, yourselves and SO glad you got back together for hugs and memories. Uplifting and poignant memoir writing.

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Thank you for reading. They were wild days!

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Wonderful share Sue, the value of friends.

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