Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Can I share something really cute with you today? I think this is so cute and lovely and it's a great reminder for us to stay in touch with the people that we love not perfectly, not even necessarily

consistently, but even just a little bit. In fact, a friend of mine, her name's Alex, she's

wonderful, she lives in New York. I met her mom at her book launch party and she asked me,

you know, how did you meet Alex? And I shared that we met

at like this LinkedIn breakfast, et cetera, et cetera. And I said, you know, I really, you know,

value Alex's friendship. And I moved to Miami. It'll be six years ago this year. And Alex and I

are in touch. We collab. Maybe we text or have some form of contact twice a year. Right. This isn't much.

Right. This is just keeping in touch a little bit. Right. Don't let your friendships die because

you think you need to have all these face-to-face meetings, an hour long phone conversations,

and always be in the loop with

their life. You don't. But a little bit of contact goes a long way. And what's interesting is I got

this email from my mum because my books have been translated into Polish and my mom is Polish.

And she shared with me that her friend, Renata, in Poland, has my book, which is so lovely. And she shared with me that her friend Renata in Poland has my book, which is so

lovely. And I asked her a bit about Renata and I said, oh, I don't think you've told me about her

before. And she said this. I'm reading my mum's email. Now, my mom writes weird emails because

she does it on like a grandpad and it's not easy to punctuate. Like I think it's a bit of a

tricky thing to navigate. So it's going to sound a little broken or funny as I read it, but you'll

get the gist. Okay? My mom said this. I met Renata in 1963, 62 years ago. We started university together. We lived in the same room together. We were going to

Saturday night student dances to catch a man. Ha ha. We kept in touch all of these years,

taking little breaks. She is a lovely human being. And then she tells me a little bit about her life, about Renata's life, private stuff here that I won't share.

But she says, she now lives on her flat, she now lives on her own in a flat in Warsaw, and she enjoys your beautiful book.

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