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‘I’m an just an old-fashioned forgetter of people’s names’

“A while ago, I was taking part in a pub quiz. It came down to a tiebreaker question: which nurse was made famous by the Crimean War?

At which point, my excited teammate screeched, ‘Mary Nightingale!’

We lost the quiz.

For my teammate (who’s also a friend),

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