My regular readers will know that I sometimes use song titles for the titles of my blog posts. Today's entry is written especially for those who love "It's One Of Those Nights" and know the sad significance of today's date.
I was telling you in the last post about my friend and her breast cancer diagnosis. I can't keep calling her my friend but I want to protect her privacy. So I'll choose another name for her, lets call her Linda.
Today I'd like to tell you about how Linda and I met. It was back in the early 70s. I wasn't having a great time growing up. I knew plenty of children, the ones in my street and the ones I went to school with, so I was never short of company. But most of them felt like companions who had been selected for me through circumstance. What I wanted was friends.
Eventually life began picking up for me when I started going through my first teenage crush. The object of my affection was David Cassidy and posters of him were soon plastered all over my bedroom walls. One day someone said to me that they must introduce me to Linda as her bedroom walls looked very similar to mine. And that was how I met the person who I would call my first true friend.
I doubt our paths would have crossed any other way as she's a couple of years older than me and she went to a different school. Through our shared love of David Cassidy we got to know several other girls locally and lifelong friendships were made.
If David was still alive he would have been 68 today. Linda and I are feeling sad and I expect that many other ladies of our age will be too. I don't really know why his death last November affected so many of us. We still have all the happy memories and the music. Perhaps it's because his loss is a poignant reminder of the passing years and our own mortality. Whatever it is I know that I miss him very much.
So thank you David for the music which soothed me through my teenage angst. And for all the wonderful friendships I made because of you. To all those girls, especially Linda, I send you a hug and I thank you for helping me through my cancer journey. I cherish you all.
