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Today's Daze

Tuesday 22 December 1998: San Juan, PR

Tito showing up my office around noon giving me welcome chance to go down Guido’s – excuse I should say, chance is always there. Dutch Ed showed up after his employee Anibal sat there as we arrived. I’d sat long a.m. over a joke performance appraisal wi Chiqui, saw Carmen in afternoon then down Guy’s again

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One Year Ago Today

Friday 22 December 1995: San Juan, PR

Office party … My Underwriting Dept presented me, to my deep discomfort and embarrassment but deep pride and gratitude, shirt and tie … “While you come to us from a country and culture so different to our own you have, silently and with no apparent effort, allowed us to consider you a part of us.

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Two Years Ago Today

Saturday 22 December 2001: Rugby

Our driver verged on the obsequious but got a £10 tip anyway for dropping us at Rugby – ta to Simon … stood outside Damien’s huddling in his doorstep against the freezing cold Amy & me Joe’d gone to town Wendy sorting out a rental car from Kennings in which she dropped me at Woodside caff

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Three Years Ago Today

Tuesday 22 December 1981: London

Felt so wretched this morning that had to have the day off work. Didn’t indeed get out of bed for any length of time until about 4.30 p.m. and back in it now at 10.30. Woke two or three times last night and just made it to the bog with diarrhoea and bily vomiting still

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Four Years Ago Today

Saturday 22 December 1979: Outwell

Wasted the morning as usual and went up town about 1. Did some Christmas shopping … left Clifton at 6 … with Peppy on my lap for the whole journey. Arrived in Outwell … all I’d had was a chicken & mushroom pie in the Bull before midday. Stayed in & watched a Bronson film.

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