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A VERY VERY PRECIOUS DAY :

today two long-time friends

(mother and daughter)

visited us.

  

A good forty (!) years ago

they lived in our village and we became friends :

the mothers and the daughters (mostly)

(because the mothers and the fathers had the same names, we always

referred to each other as "the other ..." , our children called us at 

our first name instead of mom and dad )

They moved somewhere else in Holland

but we still kept in touch though not as frequently ...

And then the parents moved to France

(without their (almost) grown children)

But from time to time we wrote.

After some sad time

now my namesake is visiting lots

of old friends in Holland.

For the "girls"it was about 30 years since they

had seen each other !

WHAT A SWEET MEMORY-DAY IT WAS !!!

(the connection)