LAFFA

Phil met Miranda in 1988 at a remote kibbutz up in the Golan Heights in northern Israel. He was a soldier (who had left Tulsa to join the IDF) and she was a British backpacker escaping Margaret Thatcher’s ill-conceived poll tax. She was supposed to be a one night stand, but he had a fridge and she didn’t, so she was still there when he next came back on leave. Also, she’d had two other boyfriends called Phil & three was her lucky number.