How we met: ‘She had an eyebrow piercing – I thought that was very edgy’
Ilya and Amy, both 49, met at a student party in the 90s when Amy was playing drums in a band. They now live on opposite sides of Canada but are in touch almost daily
In 1998, life was good for Ilya. She was a post-graduate student in women’s studies at York University in Toronto, and had started dating Jas, “the big romance” of her 20s. “I was living in a house share and having a great time,” she says.
Jas started a band with some women on campus and it wasn’t long before Amy came into their lives. She was working as an education coordinator in an art gallery when she was introduced to Jas by a friend. “I’d been playing drums since I was a teenager and I was keen to meet new friends,” she says. “As soon as she introduced me to the rest of the group, the band, Lazy Susan, was formed.”
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