Of no fixed address
Sir: I sympathise with Keith Waterhouse's dilemma (Diary, 14 March). I too have reached an age at which my address book and invitation lists are grimly reaped with increasing frequency. I suggest he tries a different method of pruning and adopts a revised attitude to it. Tippex completely covers the entry, so that one cannot see the name of the person eradicated; and address books exist to provide the address and tele- phone number of the people listed in them: those one has loved and lost cannot any longer be contacted by such means, and to remove their names is simply to acknowl- edge their newly unqualified status. In remembering this one does not forget them.
Margaret Melicharova
Stable Cottage, Creake Road, Burnham Thorpe, King's Lynn, Norfolk
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