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Dear Mike,
"Bouncers" is a very funny play in which 4 men play all the parts, the bouncers, the 4 lads, the four girls, and it is about a nightclub where they all intermingle, aim to get pulled, pull, whatever, highly recommended.
You say "and, feeling a little low yesterday lunchtime, remembering Mike,"
I've had several friends (and a wife) die over the years, and I think I can understand what you feel, but there is one certainty that I have which always kept me a cause - the only thing that dies is a body, the being remains exactly as before, if admittedly a little more difficult to communicate with.
Therefore you are doing the exactly right thing in writing for him/them, for I strongly suspect that "your feeling a little low" is your friend being in touch.
Christianity, I think, is the only major world religion which does not have the concept of the being living on, although a garbled version could be "your soul goes to heaven" - no, one IS one's soul, more accurate to say the being (oneself) has "left the body".
The ancient Greeks had it that "man is a spirit clothed in flesh", and as with any clothing, it wears out ....
Keep remembering your friend, and keep writing to make him laugh - he IS !
Love Alan
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