I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello, how are you doing?

I just got back from Dublin yesterday.

Now, this wasn't a planned visit.

A longtime friend of mine, we've been friends since we were 10, so that's

what, like about 31 years, her mom passed away on Tuesday.

And so I popped home for 24 hours, back home to Dublin,

so I could be there for the funeral.

And it's funny because, and I think I mentioned this where I was talking when I talked

about my father's funeral on a couple of the episodes last year. It took 27 days from when dad

passed away for his funeral to happen and you know I said at the time, you know, to basically anyone who would listen, oh my gosh, it's so different back home in Dublin like, it's like three, within two, three days.

And so we were talking about this yesterday,

you know, at the funeral just about how

like this crazy long here in England, like two days.

You know, my friend's one passed away on Tuesday

and we've had the funeral like yesterday.

And anyway, I digress.

So it was a lovely day, despite the circumstances, and I saw people who I hadn't seen for the longest time like

basically people from my old neighborhood and so it was great to catch up and to reminisce and to tell stories.

And as I was preparing to record this episode, which is a Friendship episode,

so just as a quick reminder this autumn that's 2018 in case

you're listening in the future I am doing a series of episodes on the subject of friendship because I know that so many people

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