BC organised an evening reception for all the summer information science interns based in the US. I was delighted to be invited: I’d been getting very lonely living in a shed in my hosts’ garden. I was beginning to feel like the human equivalent of a dog sent to its kennel. I was also excited to hear that my sister would be there.

What I hadn’t counted on was BC’s network power. He’d persuaded none other than Sir Paul McCartney to be our entertainer for the evening! Unfortunately Sir Paul was bundled away by his minders after just one song. However, I would be boasting for years to come that I had stood just four feet away from Sir Paul McCartney as he serenaded a few privileged members of the US information science community.

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