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How I’ve Grown Older With My Choir

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Wendy Varley
Jan 28, 2025
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Medina Community Choir on stage with Fatboy Slim at the Common People Festival in Southampton in May 2015. (I’m back row far left.)

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Joining a choir was my new year resolution in 2015 and it’s one of the few I’ve ever …

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80s/90s journalist (Just Seventeen, Parents, broadsheets). Longtime diarist, keeper, and writer of nostalgia, history and life.
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