"I am just going outside and may be some time..." A Strange Day
There are very few times I can honestly say I've been sideswipwed by events in my life, but I can now add another one. Someone who I had been told had died in a car accident after we had lost contact with each other back around 1980, sent this email...
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Hi Chuck
or at least I hope it's John 'Chuck' Connor, ex-RN communicator and co-author of (more like driving force behind) In Defiance Of Medical Opinion ?
I've just found a reference to you in Prolapse 11 with this email address and wondered if it was still current !
I was taking a look on-line at what references there might actually be to me when I came across a link to the History of SF, and then some fanzines - and lo, there was a photo of somebody I recognised - my old mate John Connor, albeit a few years older !
I read with some dismay that I supposedly was killed in a car accident 'way back in the 1980's' - I have no idea where that particular rumour might have come from, but I did leave the communications branch in the early 80's and re-train to photographer; maybe somebody got the wrong idea ?
Anyway, I just thought I'd drop you a quick line in the hopes that this email address is still current - and possibly catch up with someone I haven't been in contact with for about 30 years !!
Regards
Aleck (Bill) Butcher
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Apart from being totally knocked for six. We've already started emailing and catching up, so if I'm a little non-communicative for a day or so, you now know the reason why.
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Hi Chuck
or at least I hope it's John 'Chuck' Connor, ex-RN communicator and co-author of (more like driving force behind) In Defiance Of Medical Opinion ?
I've just found a reference to you in Prolapse 11 with this email address and wondered if it was still current !
I was taking a look on-line at what references there might actually be to me when I came across a link to the History of SF, and then some fanzines - and lo, there was a photo of somebody I recognised - my old mate John Connor, albeit a few years older !
I read with some dismay that I supposedly was killed in a car accident 'way back in the 1980's' - I have no idea where that particular rumour might have come from, but I did leave the communications branch in the early 80's and re-train to photographer; maybe somebody got the wrong idea ?
Anyway, I just thought I'd drop you a quick line in the hopes that this email address is still current - and possibly catch up with someone I haven't been in contact with for about 30 years !!
Regards
Aleck (Bill) Butcher
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Apart from being totally knocked for six. We've already started emailing and catching up, so if I'm a little non-communicative for a day or so, you now know the reason why.