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		<title>I wish &#8230;&#8230;. kind of</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hot here. We&#8217;re in the middle of some sort of heatwave. I really do like it but would obviously prefer it if I were on the beach, under the umbrella, reading a good book. But I&#8217;d forgotten this thing &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8892">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Boiler Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things I remember. I remember it&#8217;s dark. I remember it&#8217;s cold. I remember the hods, the coke, the ashes, the metal bucket used to carry the hot ashes to a place further away to tip them on the growing heap &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8885">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Everything happened at 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I really know that not everything happened at 8. Some things happened before and some afterwards but, for most of them, it seems that 8 was the magic number. That was the year that many bad things happened. And, &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8881">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s do it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a glimmer of light at the end of this particular tunnel. Or, possibly, it&#8217;s a slight crack in the paradise of life, showing the fiery core of the earth &#8211; hell. I feel uncomfortable and, yet, still interested enough &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8849">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pubs and beer and food and Indian and rain and cold and wind &#8211; but mainly pubs , beer and food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned before about my friend from school, H, who&#8217;s wife died a little while ago. Unfortunately, I could only go to the funeral for the day but I made the effort and went over on our long holiday weekend &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8796">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connected! A wedding and a funeral.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the film. Except only the one wedding and not four. The wedding I mentioned in the two posts below. The funeral was yesterday. I had been feeling very anxious about it. I was going for the day. It meant &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8784">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding nightmares.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over 37 years ago, I was Best Man at my best schoolmate&#8217;s wedding. It has given my nightmares ever since. I was young. I didn&#8217;t understand and, by then, I was no longer speaking to my parents so I &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8779">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting closer every day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death happens to us all, sooner or later. Before the Internet, it was more difficult. Information wasn&#8217;t easy to come by. But, when I was around 15 or 16 (or even 17), I knew how to kill myself. Sleeping tablets. &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8705">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can I find the keys to the vaults?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 08:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And, to add to my previous post. My memory is terrible and everyone who knows me knows this to be true. Except, that&#8217;s not really the whole story. My memory is very selective. It seems that I am able to &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8695">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Like a ghost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 13:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, she got me thinking. Was it true? Did we have such a relationship that HAS affected everything else? And then came the most disturbing thing. I realised that, in all the memories, although she was obviously there, she had &#8230; <a href="http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=8691">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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