His name is John, mine is Bill. He is 39 years old, I'm 56 years old. I have always seen him as my little nephew John, and he saw me as uncle William. His mother, my cousin Brenda with little John moved abroad when John was about 10 years old. Over the years we sent each other Christmas cards and the odd letters between us, but not much else. I did hear some 2 years ago that John had got married 9 years previous to then, but had split up from her and was returning to the UK soon.
12 months ago he phoned me saying that he was living with a lady in the UK and they were going to get married soon and will be sending invitations to family members to addend the wedding. A few weeks later my wife and I got an invitation to the wedding which was in 2 months time. I replied saying that we would love to attend and will be there on that date in good time.
The wedding went well, his new wife Ann was nice and I got on very well with her. At the evening reception I got to speak to my cousin Brenda which I had not seen for some years. We talked about old times as we drank in the good quality wine. She was glad that her John had settled down with Anne. John was her second marriage, she had two grown up children who lived away but managed to get the wedding ceremony, they left soon after. At about midnight we said our goodbye's and left in a taxi to our hotel. The next morning John insisted on driving us to the railway station for our journey home. Has he dropped us off my wife and I insisted on inviting him and the new wife to visit us at some time in the near future.
A few months later my nephew John rang me just to see how we were. We spoke at length about all sorts. I suggested an invite pointing out we have room to put you and Ann up in the guest room. We fix a date for there visit in two weeks time. Some days before the visit John rung to say that Ann cant make the visit due to some emergency at her place of work.. I suggested that he could come on his own, if that's ok with Ann. He rang back latter saying Ann is ok with him visiting without her. He decided to take the train and I said I will pick him up at the station on Wednesday afternoon.
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