Feeling My Age

My late cousin with his family in the late sixties, looking cheeky, bright-eyed and full of promise. When he died in his early forties of an HIV-related illness his mother set up an award scheme in his memory at a London university. “Having had a drug problem in his early life, he devoted the last drug-free part of his life to helping addicts free themselves from their habits and stay drug free.” she wrote. “I want to enable his work to continue: this scholarship provides an opportunity for students accepted onto the course but who can’t afford to fund it themselves.”