Friendship
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While cleaning up my laptop, I came across a poem I wrote some time ago. I was inspired to write it after receiving a card from my best friend, who had passed away on Valentine’s Day 2023. Though the card came from his family, it felt to me as if it had been sent straight
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The Long Goodbye“Goodbye” is such a strange word. It carries both positive and negative connotations in equal measure.• Positive because it marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one.• Negative because sometimes it is final, with no possibility of turning back. Over the years, I have felt immense guilt and
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The sad news broke today that the Pogues frontman, Shane McGowan, died early this morning. The news brought me back to my memories of 1988. My best friend Patrick, who sadly passed away earlier this year, asked me if I knew the title of the Pogues single, which was on the radio a lot. (back
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Dear Anne, today you would have turned 93, but we all know the history why that didn’t happen. Some of that history is written in the diary you received on your 13th birthday, June 12 1942.So many people have read that diary, your private thoughts laid bare for the world to see. But I am
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Some Jewish children gave away their toys when they had to report for transport or went into hiding. Marbles were a child’s prized possession. The night before they were transported, a few children in the South of Amsterdam were known to have said: ‘Let’s just toss them!’ They threw their marbles out the window, hoping
History of Sorts 
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