I was just coming away from one of the tills in Waitrose at midday today when I realised that following close behind me out of the store was someone I'd last seen eight years ago. It was the male half of a couple who had been friends with M--- (and her late husband) since their first teaching days, way back to the late 1960s. When I became M---'s close friend from 1994, I came to know them too.
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