Tag: friendship
member name: HGM Moya Goatley
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August 13, 2006 06:59 AM EDT --
My friend Reg was old, had diabetes, was blind, deaf and had heart problems. He was also kind and had a sense of humour. He lived in an old people's home where there were few to stimulate . . .
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May 31, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
When I needed help,
Finding the courage to ask
Helped beyond measure.
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June 02, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
A West Indian friend of mine told me a story and said "there girl, ya make a poem o' dat". I did -
My God! She ill. Dat bad.
She me bes' friend ya know
If I don't . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:21 PM EDT --
"How is she"? I asked
"She's taken a new 'old girl'
Under her warm wing.
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July 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
Many years ago, as I pushed my baby in her pram I fell to thinking that there must be more to life. Emma was one of those babies who tranquilly slept and didn't need my full attention every waking . . .
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August 11, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
I said "Your friends on Gather would love to be able to meet you".
"I'd love to meet them too" she said "I'll be getting my wings soon and I'll go and visit them all". . . .
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September 16, 2006 05:51 AM EDT --
You should visit them,
Your friends who ask after me
And give them my love.
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November 12, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
The last time I went to visit Mimi we sat together in the sitting room of the residential home.
"Would you like to go for a ride"?
There was a long pause.
"No" she . . .
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October 12, 2007 09:09 AM EDT --
Gather friends, On Monday I shall be sitting an exam and I need your help. In the past, a word of your encouragement provided a tremendous boost so I thought that if you all . . .
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June 16, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
When I was a baby my mother put me in the care of my grandparents. With us lived my uncles and a cousin of theirs. Across the road lived another cousin and her children, Maureen and Ernest, . . .
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August 13, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
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January 01, 2007 05:53 AM EST --
Blessings as plentiful as the grass that grows,
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February 20, 2007 03:58 AM EST --
My slates are slipping
. . .
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February 18, 2008 06:26 PM EST --
"Oh! I wish" she said,
Laying her head against mine.
I wished for courage.
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August 13, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
I am returned after a very long visit to the land of "other things". I missed you all and couldn't wait to dip once more into the delights of the Gather family. In due course . . .
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December 01, 2007 07:27 AM EST --
My! am I a lucky girl. At present I have 972 messages awaiting my attention in my in-box. I do hope that these do not need my personal reply as the senders are doomed to disappointment. . . .
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July 14, 2006 12:46 PM EDT --
There's so much to do,
The world is tattered and torn -
I'll sew your button.
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April 12, 2007 03:20 AM EDT --
while I made plans life intervened and said I had to forego Gather for a while. I've dipped in from time to time but not enough to nourish my spirit. I find I have 136 messages and not . . .
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February 01, 2008 06:16 PM EST --
I was driving Mimi to the hospital to have a chest x-ray. As she is profoundly deaf such journeys are perforce mostly silent affairs. We drove through the countryside, green fields with a . . .
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December 27, 2008 05:38 PM EST --
I wonder if any of you remember me. I find to my amazement that I have not ventured onto this site since May. What a dreadful way to treat a friend, particularly a friend who has been a great . . .
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