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He Knew Me Better Than Anyone Else Has Ever Known Me

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Gill Capper
Feb 19, 2024
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This time last year my best friend died. Scott Taylor, Canadian, dramatist, artist, pianist, cultural commentator, polymath, survivor of an abusive childhood, collector of Susuki vases, author of a 700 page as yet unpublished tome ‘Dismantling Mouths’, and, in his own words, ‘a neurotic’s neurotic’.

 In January this year, I attended, virtually, a seven h…

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