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Funny thing \"life\" innit? You never know what it\'s gonna throw your way or when it\'s gonna throw it.
When I started work, I was 17. Got to know a lad who was a year older than me and had been there for a year prior to me starting. We\'ve both worked at the same place all our working lives - grew from boys to men, you could say. Been mates through his divorce, my marriage, birth of both my kids, his remarriage, birth of his son...27 years we were friends.
Always the sporty type, football, squash, badminton, running - still arranging the twice weekly 5-a-side lunch time football up until 6 weeks ago, when he was diagnosed with in-operable cancer of both the pancreas and liver. He was told it was a particularly invasive form of cancer and that treatment would be futile.
Bill died at the weekend.
Dunno why I\'m posting this - you\'re probably wondering \"what\'s all this got to do with NESA\"? Absolutely nothing ! I suppose I just had to write it down for my own sake.
I couldn\'t even bring myself to tell my wife until today.
[Edited on 26/7/2004 by TC]
When I started work, I was 17. Got to know a lad who was a year older than me and had been there for a year prior to me starting. We\'ve both worked at the same place all our working lives - grew from boys to men, you could say. Been mates through his divorce, my marriage, birth of both my kids, his remarriage, birth of his son...27 years we were friends.
Always the sporty type, football, squash, badminton, running - still arranging the twice weekly 5-a-side lunch time football up until 6 weeks ago, when he was diagnosed with in-operable cancer of both the pancreas and liver. He was told it was a particularly invasive form of cancer and that treatment would be futile.
Bill died at the weekend.
Dunno why I\'m posting this - you\'re probably wondering \"what\'s all this got to do with NESA\"? Absolutely nothing ! I suppose I just had to write it down for my own sake.
I couldn\'t even bring myself to tell my wife until today.
[Edited on 26/7/2004 by TC]
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