Parkinson’s UK site. In February 2019, I received that email from him. The following day we spoke on the phone for the first time – it was as if no time had passed. ‘I kept all your letters, too,’ he told me.Three days later, Joss was in Oxford for a physics seminar and asked if he could call on me afterwards.
Of course I said yes. Also widowed, he was still the man I remembered – full of charm. As it happened, I had tickets for a Monteverdi concert that night.
So we spent the afternoon and evening together, and it felt wonderfully natural.Over the next few months, we spoke regularly and met up for exhibitions, concerts and suppers out.
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