Tag: Old friends forever missed
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26. A Farewell via WhatsApp
Most text messages are as disposable as recorded chatter. Yet I do not set a default timer on all of mine. I am particularly grateful that my recent text message exchange with an old friend was not automatically deleted. S. (otherwise anonymous herein) and I first met at university in Atlantic Canada in 1971. He…
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X. A Few Tributes (con’d)
In subsequent letters, I tried not to be judgmental about the misadventures Satsuki reported. I offered sympathy and advice without specific promises of help. Usually, I wrote her on the same nights I penned a batch of other letters to friends and acquaintances. On some of those nights, I was admittedly maudlin from a few…
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X. A Few Tributes (intro.)
Introduction: It would be a better world in which final farewells could be bitter-sweetly ceremonial as in the Scots-Irish ballad, ‘The Parting Glass’: But since it fell into my lotThat I should rise and you should notI’ll gently rise and softly callGood night and joy be to you all But they very seldom are. As one…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 