Thank You
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“In 1979 I married and went to live in Jamaica. Two years later my life seemed to be in tatters and I returned home. On the flight between Miami and Heathrow I sat next to a very funny Londoner. He took one look at me, with my face swollen from crying and eyes like slits, and instead of being put off he made some flippant remark like, ‘Your holiday can’t have been that bad!’ which immediately made me laugh, and from then on he amused me. I’d like to thank him for that. He probably didn’t know what he was doing at the time, he was probably doing it more to amuse himself than to cheer me up- but it was great fun.” - Maria, Cornwall.
“I’d like to thank two strangers who saved my life in the 1950s as an 18-month-old child. I was playing on the balcony of a third-floor council block apartment when I dropped a favourite toy. As I climbed up to get it I slipped over the side but managed to hang on to a railing. Two men were working on the building site opposite, they heard me scream, looked across and saw me dangling. They raced over, stood below me and crossed their arms in a fireman’s catch and, as I tumbled, they broke my fall and saved my life. I’d like to say thank you, albeit 50-odd years later.” - Robert, Glasgow.
