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Death in the family #rememberingmilly
It’s interesting to think the effect that the internet can have on inter-personal relationships. I’ve been sitting in front of a computer screen for social reasons for the best part of a decade. I have friends that I’ve known since we were teenagers that I have never met. I’ve hung out at the same forum so long it’s almost comforting to know that when things are bleak out there in the real world, and you may not be readily able to see your real life friends, you can go to a place where you can have fun with friends all over the world - none of whom you’ve ever met.
About three years ago, I joined Twitter and on it too I have formed friendships and acquaintances - I even met my girlfriend of almost two years on Twitter. On Twitter you find funny people, people who find you for the oddest reasons. Maybe you’ve been retweeted a lot by someone they follow, or a celebrity they follow retweeted you, or they found you through a hashtag or something else you might have said. I don’t know exactly how MildewPea found me, but I can almost certainly guess it was related to the subject of tea. At first, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Mildred. I couldn’t tell if her whimsical tweets about tea trolleys and her flamboyant use of British-isms was a real person, a joke account or what - but I gradually learned that it was just an eccentric, kind, friendly woman who although we didn’t cross paths much at times due to her keeping what for me, in Ireland, she said were late hours (I cannot right now find or remember the exact words she used but I wish I could but I recall something about Church committees ). I always felt a comfort in seeing her tweets, they had a warmth to them. She was part of the familiar faces of my timeline and even though our interaction were often short, I kept up with her tweets and enjoyed seeing her pop up from the crowd now and again.
Sadly I have learned that Mildred passed away the other day. I will miss her as I would miss any friend, even one who I only knew in 140 characters.
Mildred ‘Mildewpea’ Diane Singleton - (1952-2012)
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Out of all those kinds of people
You’ve got a face with a view.
The Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
