Furniture Fair

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1. Some years ago I travelled to the Furniture Fair in Milan and, during a break, sat at a table and started talking to a stranger who obviously came from Australia. I asked him what part and he replied Pert. I said that my brother lived in Perth and he asked his name. I told him and he replied "Oh I know Simon" 2. On another occasion, I was in Johannesburg airport, about to return to Britain, when looking round happened to see someone that I had been at college with some 35 years earlier. He had emigrated to South Africa and was about to board the same plane as I, although he was stopping off at Milan, again going to the Furniture Fair. - Guy N
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