<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361384" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Lasting Friendship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Betty Burton<br>A friend for over thirty years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It is funny just how time slips away. <br>It only seems like yesterday <br>when the two of us met, <br>long, long ago in 1976. <br>It was in September of that year <br>a friend persuaded me <br>to go along to a writing class <br>to help boost up the numbers <br>and my moral. <br>With just four pupils <br>and five when I came along, <br>so a small intimate group <br>all with the desire to write, <br>but Betty became <br>the most famous of us all <br>with over thirteen <br>historical romantic bestsellers. <br>She really has made her name. <br>I am proud to say <br>I was there when she began. <br>I remember when <br>she had her first short story published <br>it was a treat to us all. <br>If Betty could do it <br>then there was some hope for us all. <br>She even started teaching <br>and I was a guest speaker <br>at one of her classes, <br>and as the years passed on by, <br>we met up with one another <br>very occasionally, <br>but what remained <br>even to this day <br>was a lasting friendship. <br>About that <br>there is nothing more to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>17 January 2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361384" data-title="A Lasting Friendship de David Harris" data-description="For Betty Burton A friend for over thirty years. It is funny just how time slips away. It only seems like yesterday when the two of us met, long, long ago in 1976. It was in September of that year a friend persuaded me to go along to a wri..."></div> </div> </div>

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