June is with it, spunky, on top of life, acerbic, intelligent and a no-nonsense kind of gal. She’s also survived cancer in her 60s, lost her husband six months ago and has one arm. She jokes about being ‘the one armed bandit’ after a discussion on Las Vegas.

I once had a boyfriend named Fred. Well, he wasn’t a true boyfriend, but he may have thought so. Or imagined it, or wanted it, or…