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Cassie McCullough

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Now, this is a bit like, you know, the old, what a Facebook originally was before Mark Zuckerberg.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Interestingly, also a Harvard, well, I think maybe did he finish?

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

I don't know.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

where he got the idea from.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

So we get these little potted histories of their lives and what they've been doing since they all last caught up.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

So we learn a little of their lives.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Although it has to be noted that Jules's entry is very brief.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

It just says, address care of, you know, and her agent's address.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Which is kind of good.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Kate, they're great.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

I love those.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

You're going to be crossed off quite a few little lists this Christmas, I reckon.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

what could possibly go wrong?

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

Obviously there's a scenario where all the ghosts of the past are eventually going to be dredged up.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

And in a way, this reminded me of The Big Chill and also Charlotte Wood's The Weekend, you know, like it's,

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

It's sort of a bit of nostalgia, people getting back together and going, oh, wow, we didn't really know each other or maybe we do too well.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

And life didn't turn out the way we imagined it.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

And look at us.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

We remember how beautiful each other were when we were younger.

The Bookshelf
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets

And here we all are with the weight of age beginning to show.