With a little help from my friends

There have been plenty who have come and gone for different reasons. My friends from childhood are long gone. My closest friend Nicki, who was only 9 months younger than me I was shocked to hear died from cancer when she was 28. We *fell out* as teenagers do just as we finished school. We had grown up and grown apart I think. It is still very sad. I know that she had a good, but short life and did everything she wanted and got married. She only lived across the cul-de-sac from me and her parents still live there. they moved there just after we did in 1979.

There was a big gang of kids that *hung out* on our estate..more about that perhaps another time.