KEEPING MY WIFE’S MEMORY ALIVE
Feb 15, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: FRANCES LEATE TRACY GAYTON.
‘WHATEVER WE DID, IT WAS BETTER TOGETHER’
As my wife Carli, then 24, and I chatted quietly in the corner at a friend’s party, every second word was followed by a laugh. I was trying to convince her to come to a Foo Fighters gig and she’d refused, calling it ‘noise’, so I was teasing her about the boy bands she loved. The only thing we could agree on music-wise was the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. We’d played the song Come What May, at our wedding months earlier in July 2004.
That night, as usual, we sneaked off early to snuggle up together at home.
Despite her being quiet and reserved, people were drawn to Carli. She was
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