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YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND OLDER RELATIVES
When I was a youth worker I spent a week working with an amazing friend of mine, Rev. Barrie Lees, in his parish of Falmouth. It was going to be a week working in schools, with the youth club and for the local Boys’ Brigade. I’d just started my career and enthusiastically thought young people were the answer to everything!
When Barrie suggested we visit an old folks’ home my non-verbal response must have spoken volumes; he looked me in the eye and said: ‘Old people are important too.’ He was, as always, right and surprisingly enough I plan on being an old person one day too!
I know they drive you nuts, frustrate the life out of you, do things at a third of the speed and think your taste in music is ...
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