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He got a reply in two days.
It said, in full: wow. yeah I’m around. nobody told me about the ten year, I assumed it didn’t happen.
My son telephoned me about that one.
He read it out and then he did not say anything for a while and then he said: “Mom.
He assumed it didn’t happen.”
And I said, “I know.”
And he said, “He’s been walking around for a year thinking there wasn’t one.”
And I said, “I know, sweetheart.”