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October 27, 2004
My family and other animals
We buried my grandad today and it brought home to me the bizarre thing that a family is. Some thirty or so members of my family travelled to Wales today and so we met and talked, shared memories, laughed and cried together. I talked particularly to my cousin David, I haven't seen him for more than 20 years, when we were still kids.
Eventually we said our goodbyes, wished each other well and got back in our cars. Then, almost as one, we all headed East through the Mersey Tunnel back to our homes - in the same city. You see those 30 some people all live in suburbs of Liverpool, no more than 12 miles apart and yet most of us only ever meet on occasions like this, some we don't see for 20 years.
Now I'm sitting here contemplating this and every one of us has sworn today that we'll get together or keep in touch but we all know that won't happen. Tomorrow we'll go back to what we did yesterday and plod on exactly the same. Is it just us or are all families the same?
You know David works in a large bookshop in town, not 10 minutes walk from where I work. Maybe I'll take a wander up there next week, I could do with something to read.
Posted by lilliebet at October 27, 2004 09:16 PM
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