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Recently a scooter buddy posted something on Facebook that made me stop, pause and read again. I wasn’t alone in doing so, because the sentiment in Darren’s post hit several people in the same way. Curly was an old friend and Darren had grown up with him, but Curly had recently passed away and Darren had just attended the funeral. As we grow older the cycle of funerals seems to accelerate for many of us, but this one had clearly touched Darren. With his kind permission I have included

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