I'm hoping (or perhaps not, after the Fleetwood disaster) that this match will be broadcast by ESPN for viewing on our giant 65" "donated" curved TV screen here in Florida. Helped out a neighbour, Paul Ryder, in the condo below us, in his last days back home, after he was kicked out of rehab after 180 days, and sent home with Minal in-home nursing care. Most of his stomach had been removed due to cancer, and he was not rating the food we were preparing him. On the Monday of the week he died 4 years ago I brought in a Colombian lady, Lelia, who incidentally cuts my hair now (she remembered me when I visited her nearby hair salon last December, and thought Paul was my father and gave her condolences, now Paul was 78 four years ago and I was 65!) to cut Paul's hair, trim his beard, cut his toe nails and finger nails. He looked terrible, a thin man in a dressing gown, dishevelled, but looked so much better after his "fix up". By Thursday Paul was not looking at all good and I phoned his sons living in New York to better come down, one a police officer, the other ran a Honda dealership (Paul himself a lovely white Honda Accord Coupe that some lowlife that week tried to steal the wheels off, but couldn't get by the single lock nut on each wheel, AAA fixed the car up). So we met the sons at West Palm Beach airport on Friday morning and brought them to their Dad, he died that night, at home, on oxygen, in his bed. The TV donation was a mark of gratitude for our efforts with their Dad. We constantly visited him whilst in rehab and he loved to eat Taco Bell food, milk shakes and Public deli prepared sandwiches. Now to the crux of this story Paul was born in Newcastle and moved with his family to New York aged 8 (he was 78 when he died in February 2019). The boys buried their Dad here, quickly sold Paul's lovely ground floor, renovated, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo with all the furnishings for $95,000, a real bargain and drove their Dad's Honda back to New York. Paul was a truck driver, away from home too much he said, divorced and retired here in Greenacres Florida to a modest condo, non gated, this an activity clubhouse, shuffleboard, Bocci ball, lots of Italians here, and the crown jewel, a 25 yard wonderful pool, not sure if he used it too much though, as we do every morning at 7:30am, for 30 mins, when no-one else is there so we can do laps. Paul found new love here, but was caught out when the daughter of that woman saw him having dinner with another woman, a casual acquaintance, and told her mother what she had seen, which ended that relationship.
So for Paul, born in Newcastle, please R's pull one out of the bag and beat Sunderland, to mark the 4 year anniversary of his death.
So for Paul, born in Newcastle, please R's pull one out of the bag and beat Sunderland, to mark the 4 year anniversary of his death.
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