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my dad flew over from aus this week to attend his best friend's funeral.
it's weird seeing your father upset. it has the effect of throwing you 30 years into the future.
i met his old football team. they were all there. bless them. one of them had his old tie on, the Southend Electricity Football Club, blue and yellow, a 70s cut. i hadn't realised my adoptive grandfather had managed the team, how could something so important have been missed? still, i never notice anything important. at least i'm consistent in that respect.
Pat's kids are 25 and 21 and displayed more maturity than i'd previously thought anyone capable of.
my dad read a poem at the funeral. pat's wife had asked him to so he'd written it on the flight over from aus and read it to me at the pub the night before to test his nerves. pat was a respected man and it was so packed at the funeral that i couldn't get in but a load of us stood under the speakers outside and i heard everything he said. he lost it at the 2nd line but i was very proud of him. sometimes people need someone to lose it publicly so that they can too.
r.i.p uncle pat