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70th birthday · given to a grandparent · under £50

We asked everyone who had ever worked for him — about forty people over twenty-odd years, several of whom took some finding — to write one line. Just one line each, no more, because otherwise you get four paragraphs from three people and silence from the rest.

We printed them all on one sheet and framed it.

The one-line rule is the part I would pass on. It made it easy to say yes to, and it meant the finished thing could be read standing up, in one go, which is how he read it.

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A single framed sheet of printed one-line messages

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