Ah all that divorce and breaking up time -nearly broke me up-dark time
P long since divorced
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Sent: 14 September 2012 08:33
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I used to have a brother-in-law whose little speech at his wedding
anniversaries always turned into:
Well, wife, it's contract-renewal time, what about it?
On 14/09/2012, at 3:40 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Ah, the old marriage, the old hiding place(s) - many of us live so long
now
> that we shouldn't ever marry 'for life'. It's an outdated concept. Maybe a
> renewable five or ten year contract. The history of the Cedar Tavern has
> even reached these far distant shores, distorted by time and envy for
> creative talent. I had my own version of the Tavern at The Royal George
> Hotel in Sydney, home before I got there in the early Sixties to the
Sydney
> push - and burired under the anonymous shadows of a expressway overpass by
> the Eighties.
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