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I'm glad the anecdote was highlighted in this thread. It's too easy to see these experiences and recollections being over-stated when isolated away from all other experience. To me, they merely comprise part of the geography as I look over my shoulder.

To the end which is now, it is true to say my family were/are emotive propaganda. They supplied some insight into the diversity of direct human relationships and their responses to narrative and material change.

Similarly if this TOTW had been about pals, best friends, loves, lovers, comrades, teachers, partners in crime, affines, enemies, nemesis⁠—perhaps even as far as tower blocks, rottweilers, dandelions, fids or 1984⁠—I don't want any of them compacting the ground where I am as I smell the soil and trace my fingers upon the horizons.