Having sent a new year card to a friend, I learned from her partner that she passed away last year. He sent me his in memoriam with a rich array of photos. Exactly as I remembered her, vivacious and luminous, beautiful and strong. The line quoted here seemed a particularly concentrated tribute to her.  

What more could you ask of someone? That they bring you the summer and make you ‘play in the highest division’, because that’s where they play, and they want you to play with them.

‘Because with L. comes the summer. L. makes us play in the highest division.’

I trust she is now indeed playing in the highest division there is.

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