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    Old Love Story
    Old Love Story
    Old Love Story
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    Old Love Story

    By Graeme Taylor

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    "Today, is a good day to go on a journey," thinks Duncan Paterson, not long after being awakened by the worker in his care home. Despite being in some pain; physical and sometimes emotional, he embarks, with mysterious help, on a fantastic, occasionally joyful, journey through his past, present and future; via some romances and London, Paris, Copenhagen and West Virginia...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraeme Taylor
    Release dateOct 28, 2012
    ISBN9781301863990
    Old Love Story
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    Graeme Taylor

    Graeme Taylor grew up in Glasgow, Scotland; graduating from both Glasgow and Nottingham Trent Universities in Social Sciences. He has spent over twenty years working with people addicted to drugs. Being able to read before he went to school, he spent childhood pocket money on the sci-fi classics of Asimov, Bradbury, Herbert and Moorcock to name but a few. He likes ballet, opera et cetera, swimming (in his wet suit) and travel; having visited almost all the European countries. He has also walked the camino de Santiago in Spain (twice); visited Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, a Killing Field in Cambodia and is diplomat of a village in Burkina Faso. Spent a while in performance poetry, but now hopes to make the time to write that novel and more. Will soon be married for the first time in his early fifties...

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      Old Love Story - Graeme Taylor

      Old Love Story

      By

      Graeme Taylor

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      Old Love Story

      Copyright © 2012 by Graeme Taylor

      Thank you for purchasing this eBook. You are welcome to download it for personal use. This book may not be reproduced, copied, and distributed for any other purposes.

      Your respect and support for the property of this author is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, to places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are fictitious and from the author’s imagination.

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      He woke to her hair stroking gently against his face. Her face emerged like that of an angel with a beautiful smile and a silky voice that slinked into him with the same ease as her perfume...

      Good Morning Mr. Paterson...Good morning, she repeated...

      It was like a lovely dream, but a familiar back-pain brought him to life...She was tucking in the bed sheets now, and straightening them out, and there was a brief dreadful realisation of where he was...

      It's a beautiful morning, bright and sunny...Can't you see it?......

      He cleared his throat, You're too good at this...People'll talk......

      Oh, we can't have that, she said, It wouldn't be right,...She smiled as she spoke...

      Maybe it is right, he said, and she smiled...She always let him flirt a little...It was harmless, if not considered professional...

      They'll be serving breakfast soon......

      Breakfast at the 'Old Crusties Hotel'......he added...

      Hey! she said, You're the lucky one...I don't get to eat for hours yet......

      Yeah, I know...You're on a diet...…

      See you there......

      Once, many years ago, he remembered, he had awakened well from a good sleep...at home...his family home...His adoptive mother had been working in the kitchen and he could hear her from his nearby bedroom...

      He allowed himself to shut his eyes and go into rest for now. He was seventeen years old...He had wakened with an idea...This was the summer break and he was on holiday from school...Why not walk it to his mother's house, some sixty plus miles away?...He could stop off at youth hostels along the way...It wouldn't cost much money...and would be an achievement and an adventure...

      He had been separated from his mother for some thirteen years even by then, but there had been some informal and amicable contact...She would be happy to see him and would put him up on arrival for a few days...

      There had been a euphoric skip in his heart that morning, like something from a story...and a bright sun had shone in through his bedroom window...just like now...

      His adoptive mother had thought it was a good idea...There had been tentative but successful contact between those two...She didn't think there could be too much of a

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