You loved to talk about yourself – your favourite topic in fact – and we took it for granted after all your guidance and care and rehabilitation you invested into us that you would probably outlive us. You were strangely animated and we remember one moment having a cigarette when we cut you off mid LA story to talk with someone else. Your presence, we realize now, that of somebody who had already passed on. We will stickle it, every little bit of it Normally, you will admit, you were somewhat of a flake and easily turned. You got back from LA and came to play your swansong in Todmorden. What we saw in real-life, real-time was you coming back home, a few sulky messages exchanged whilst you were over there, yes, but in person was a man with a vigour of someone who had something to prove and who was desperate not to let us down. Hindsight is the biggest miracle within the limited human experience. It was only after the death that we saw what was going on. This was yet another turn on this strange and fateful path that didn’t need to be taken.
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