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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460265" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Loved Stranger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remembered I'd promised my Aunt Adele before she died<br>that I'd get in touch with her family in Oz<br>just to put matters to rest, since they'd not spoken for years<br>since she upped and went off with this Pom<br>and left the family without its clever high-earner...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wasn't looking forward to it with all that bad blood -<br>'Enough for a vampire's transfusion' said my uncle, the culprit -<br>but a promise is a promise. I had Auntie's old phone book; <br>worked out the time here that would be Sunday afternoon in Oz.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The voice was open, strong, friendly - I guessed I'd hit<br>that great moment when they'd had the barbie, <br>the few beers after the few beers, <br>the guests had just gone off<br>and the washing-up could wait until after a beer...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was really glad I'd phoned - <br>he'd been away from the family most of his life, one reason and another - <br>so we didn't have much to try to piece together<br>which was probably a good thing, could've been<br>a pretty forced, stilted conversation -<br>so we got chatting about one thing and another, <br>our different lifestyles, our families -<br>and you know how it is, strangers on a train and all that, <br>got quite carried away, about how much we enjoyed life, <br>loved our wives and families, wouldn't change a thing, <br>what life had taught us - almost anything, everything really<br>like we were old friends who hadn't met up for years..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was quite late on in the conversation, when we were working out<br>if we couldn't fix up a family visit, and he'd said, <br>no, they'd never lived in Adelaide (after which city<br>Aunt was proudly named - 'greatest city on earth' they said, <br>not having travelled further than Sydney -) <br>when I realised I'd phoned the wrong number; but<br>felt good and he too I guess. <br>So I had to choose the moment<br>to laugh and say hey this is an expensive call, <br>talk to the wife and call you back, Jacko...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've never known my family so bloody merry<br>as when the story got around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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that I'd get in touch with her family in Oz
just to put matters to rest, since they'd not spoken for years
since she upped and went off with this Pom
and left the family without its clever hi..."></div>
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