'I like that one'

In the mid sixties I shared a flat with two members of the Pop group the Animals: Chas Chandler and Hilton Valentine. On tour in Sweden they had met two Swedish girls, Lotte and Yvonne, who came to visit them in London. Lotte eventually married Chas, Yvonne, in the end, married Gyp, a friend of the singer Donovan. One day Yvonne, another Swede and I were offered a lift from London to Sweden, via Amsterdam. I had just met a nice girl in Amsterdam so I arranged to pick her up on the way so she could come along too. In the end I stopped off in Amsterdam, never went on to Sweden, and the nice Dutch girl is still my wife. That is how Yvonne and she met. Yvonne had a very special way of pointing at gâteaux and such things, saying: 'I like that one,' in a soft, sweet voice. We lost touch with Yvonne. Some years later we moved to Wales. Sometimes, jokingly, when she sees something Yvonne would have liked my wife points at it and puts on Yvonne's voice saying: 'I like that one.' Our daughter had heard her do that many times and, though she had obviously never met her, knew the name of the person my wife was imitating. At 15 our daughter had a summer job, behind the counter at the Quarry Café in Machynlleth. A women came up to the counter and, pointing at a pizza said in a soft, sweet voice: 'I like that one.' 'Is your name Yvonne by any chance?' our daughter asked. And it was the very same!