My other two roomates were Paul Lester and Pam Brown. Paul always had an artistic eye. These days he uses his creative talents to compose beautiful mosiacs for a small but discerning group of collectors. Pam, who was beginning to hone her skills as a poet in the early '70s, has carved a niche for herself in the world of Australian poets.

Paul and Pam, standing in front of the four-bedroom Victorian house in 2012 that we rented in Sydney's Surrey Hills back in 1972

Same house, forty years earlier; Paul stands on the window ledge, Pam stands below him (our friend Netta sits on the stoop).

Paul, Pam and I pose in front of the hippie-est building we could find for our "Sydney 2012" photo.

Paul and Pam, forty years ago, in the back yard of our Surrey Hills rental

Pam and me in late 1971

My Australian catering business partner
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