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    <title>oldfriends &amp;mdash; cos</title>
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      <title>taken back</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[An old friend asked me about an old song with a one-word name - who sang it? - and of course I knew straight away, because everything&#39;s connected - the time, the place, the feeling, the memories. I hadn&#39;t listened to it for a while, but the nostalgia punched me in the guts the same way it always did.&#xA;&#xA;a data-flickr-embed=&#34;true&#34; data-header=&#34;true&#34; data-footer=&#34;true&#34; href=&#34;https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyradio/55291869331/in/dateposted/&#34; title=&#34;OQLZE3074.jpg&#34;img src=&#34;https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/552918693319690a9ec96z.jpg&#34; width=&#34;640&#34; height=&#34;640&#34; alt=&#34;OQLZE3074.jpg&#34;//ascript async src=&#34;//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js&#34; charset=&#34;utf-8&#34;/script&#xA;&#xA;I thanked them for the reminder.&#xA;&#xA;A day later, I wondered if I should ask how/what the song made them felt, but the fear of being overly nosy stopped me - I&#39;ll continue to care from afar, and let it go.&#xA;&#xA;a data-flickr-embed=&#34;true&#34; data-header=&#34;true&#34; data-footer=&#34;true&#34; href=&#34;https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyradio/55288813242/in/dateposted/&#34; title=&#34;IMG9723.jpg&#34;img src=&#34;https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55288813242a9d9ed6418z.jpg&#34; width=&#34;640&#34; height=&#34;480&#34; alt=&#34;IMG9723.jpg&#34;//ascript async src=&#34;//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js&#34; charset=&#34;utf-8&#34;/script&#xA;&#xA;#memories #music #OldFriends #TheMaryOnettes #Devastations&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;p class=&#34;sig&#34;This was a post from a href=&#34;https://andrew.j.cosgriff.name/&#34;Cos/a./p&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;p class=&#34;sig&#34;You can follow this blog on the Fediverse at code@cos@apintandaparma.club/code or a href=&#34;https://apintandaparma.club/cos/feed&#34;subscribe in your RSS reader/a./p&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An old friend asked me about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afjQetOWhW0" rel="nofollow">an old song with a one-word name</a> – <em>who sang it?</em> – and of course I knew straight away, because everything&#39;s connected – the time, the place, the feeling, the memories. I hadn&#39;t listened to it for a while, but the nostalgia punched me in the guts the same way it always did.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyradio/55291869331/in/dateposted/" title="OQLZE3074.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55291869331_9690a9ec96_z.jpg" width="640" height="640" alt="OQLZE3074.jpg"/></a></p>

<p>I thanked them for the reminder.</p>

<p>A day later, I wondered if I should ask how/what the song made <em>them</em> felt, but the fear of being overly nosy stopped me – I&#39;ll continue to care from afar, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0S4sh-S4bM" rel="nofollow">let it go</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyradio/55288813242/in/dateposted/" title="IMG_9723.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55288813242_a9d9ed6418_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="IMG_9723.jpg"/></a></p>

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