The librarian helped me to look for a book which the catalogue said was on the shelf, but which had mysteriously gone AWOL. When she saw my name she told me we’d been in the same Feminist Studies class more than thirty years ago. Her memory is much better than mine (library training?) as I couldn’t remember her at all.
She asked whether I was still living in the same cottage and told me she’d come to a party we had in 1990 to celebrate our Silver Wedding anniversary. There was a crowd at that party, including Alf’s Imperial Army Choir who sang Rule Britannia -for Stephen, and Sisters in Jazz (Lynley Caldwell and Marg Buchanan) who sang I am Woman – for me. I wore a silver dress and Stephen had a silver cummerbund.
None of the party-goers had been at our Auckland wedding but old Auckland friends sent cards and telegrams, and one turned up unexpectedly. Because it was 1990, the sesquicentennial of the signing of Te Tiriti, I had a clever reference to this on the party invitations, but I can’t now remember what it was. Maybe I could ask the librarian.
There’s so much info in my brain
some facts just can’t be found again.
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