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14th February 2022, 05:42 AM
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The mind
It is said the human brain is a most complex but wonderful computer like structure.
It controls all we do now and records it all.
Deep within is our memory, every thing we ever did is there, just at time shard to recall.
Saturday morning on the radio came a song from the long lost past, 'Runaway' by Del Shannon.
It only takes something as simple as that to bring back a memory long lost.
Two cabins down from mine was a winger who had a small record player, every morning at 0600 hours he would play that song.
At the same time the wingers on early duty would bring empties from the Pig, bottles rattled in crates, and the empty kegs sliding along the stone deck along the working alleyway.
It all came back in a flash, if only we could once again........................ but no, we just have the memories now.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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