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Gentleman Des – A Felicitation – by Max Gerreyn As much as it is a safe bet that a large  percentage of our fellow Australians  are familiar with the surname Kelly its  much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate  Sri Lankan  Australians in Melbourne are even  more aware  and cognisant  of `Mr. Music’ – Desmond Anthony Carl Kelly – to name him in full.   I am privileged to  claim greater familiarity  and call him `Dessa’ since  becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century.  Indeed  I can claim  to even closer almost familial relationship with  Dessa as  I also  began another cyber relationship  – in the previous century – with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and  younger brother Ian . The latter  calls himself `Mala Kelly’ and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka  ...