I kept up with all my parents' friends and relations, and would send cards with return addresses where I wasn't getting a card back. Where there was family, I usually learnt if someone had died, but increasingly there are those who are alone in the world, or whose relations don't bother to let people know. And today, who would know what connections we have, when it may be through any number of password protected mediums?
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The chestnuts cast their flambeaux
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