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| A younger Gus in or spherical 1981 |
Just realized that one in every of my fashioned neighbours from 1965 to 1972 died no longer too prolonged up to now – Gus Martin. Gus lived in the row of terraced homes without prolong in the aid of mine, and that’s the explanation now three of my mates I know of who as soon as lived in the first two rows who’ve handed since 2021 – Robert Baird, Kenny Tierney, and Gus. Every other link to my childhood long previous, alas. I last undergo in thoughts chatting to Gus spherical 4 or 5 years up to now in Glasgow where he’d lived for hundreds of years, his family having moved there in the gradual Seventies or early ’80s, no longer fairly certain. (I have confidence Gus lived in assorted locations first before at last settling down in Glasgow.)
At the initiating, I only had a little list of Gus, copied from one in every of his worn shuttle cards borrowed from a mutual friend, given to him by Gus’s sister, but I’ve now managed to compose an even bigger one, above. With any luck, Gus, Kenny, and Robert are up there reminiscing about worn times as soon as we had been all innocent younger of us and youths who belief we would possibly well maybe presumably live endlessly. Only appears to be like like last week, no longer over 50 years up to now. I took a stroll alongside to the worn neighbourhood this night after publishing the first model of this submit, looked at our worn homes and remembered how things fashioned to be, and the strategy I recurrently want they are going to be again. Issue. R.I.P. Gus.
(Characterize borrowed from Ian MacNair’s Fb web page and supplied by Carolyn Denham.)