St Patrick's Day 2013

St Patrick's Day 2013 I believe I will remember. I was walking around town and got a grasp of how this is a very open and broad international party, where everyone is welcome. There was a Pipe Band from the New York Fire Department, and other bands and groups from different parts of America even from Louisiana. I spoke with a couple seeking directions, who were from Philadelphia. I saw about five people in traditional Chinese costume, looking more than attractive. I walked along the quays looking for a way that was open for me to go to the district called The Liberties, which is a place I often walk in. And on Meath Street, I was walking past a pub and heard music that is familiar to me, goes right back to my youth, and is very lyrical 'Love is teasing and love is pleasing, love is a pleasure when first is new, but as it grows older, so love grows colder, and it fades away like the morning dew' Strangely, as it turns out I had thought of this song just a day or two ago. And I didn't recognise who was singing and playing this song, and there is a lady standing in the doorway of the pub having a cigarette, and there was a notice on the window advertising Live Music. So I approached the woman and asked her if the music was recorded or Live, and I looked at her and she looked at me and she exclaimed 'John' and I exclaimed 'Karen.' When I had first been married, back in the early eighties I lived with my wife and children in a block of flats in Dun Laoghaire in County Dublin. Karen had been friends with the daughter of my next door neighbour, Janice, and as it turned out, she still is, because after she had finished her smoke we went back into the pub to meet Janice Such a long time I almost didn't want to meet. But we did meet and we exchanged recent histories, and Janice had a younger brother named Paul who very young back then, and whom I babysat a couple of times, and then she told me, he had been murdered when he was 21.