Sam McBride: How a stranger’s unexpected words stunned me with their wisdom
The life of a civil servant, working in the background, is hugely illuminating
Life’s many coincidences lead us down unexpected paths. One day recently my wife came into the kitchen where I was listening to a podcast in which an English pensioner was talking about how to spend retirement.
Having some decades to go before being relieved of the happy task of writing, I fear my wife thought me either feckless or delusional.
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