Dear Sharon,
YOUR delightful tribute to your mother reminded me of the Mark Twain quote: “When I was a boy of 14, I thought my father was so ignorant I couldn’t bear to have the old man around. When I was 21, I was surprised at how much he’d learnt in the meantime.”
Human nature never changes.
Geoff Mullery (by email)
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