There they are, at the back of the wardrobe in the spare bedroom or in those spidery corners of the shed.
They’re in the bottom of that box with the Christmas cards the kids made for you when they were little or they’re somewhere in the haunted wing of the loft. Let’s get them out and look at them, shall we? Let’s open them and gaze into the past, the monochrome past, the mysterious and unfathomable past.
Here's one of somebody standing beside a car, laughing their head off. It’s me, aged about six, dressed in a sensible overcoat with a belt. My mouth is open wide and I can hear the laughter across all the distant decades. I remember that sensible overcoat and that belt with a vividness that almost makes me weep. My dad is standing beside me and he is laughing too.
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