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Welcome, and a word about why I'm doing this
I have spent most of my life telling stories out loud, usually at a dinner table, usually at the expense of my own dignity. Writing them down is newer. Putting them on a website for strangers to read is newer still, so you will have to bear with me while I work out what exactly this thing is meant to be.
The Friends Who Never Left
Fishcakes and I met on the first day of school. Years later I came home from university for December, sat down with him at the Kingswood Hotel, and realised we had very little left in common.
Driving Friends Home
Leon Lazarus on the story from Barking at Dogs that stays with him longest, and what one dangerous late-night drive taught him about friendship under apartheid.
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