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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 237408" data-attributes="member: 5138">I was thinking about this while writing his piece up and thought if Corrie were going to do a back from the dead story-line, David Barlow would be a good shout. Unfortunately the boat has probably been long missed on that one with Bill Roache being 88 and Alan Rothwell 83, given how big such a storyline would be.It's not like women in corrie pretending their husband is dead was unheard of in Irma's day (we'll get to that in Florrie Lindlay's bio) and the two were killed off screen - of course you'd then need a leap of logic to explain why David never contacted Ken but something like him being banged up for a few murders to explain the gap - and Darren being taken away for fostering would be plausible if far-fetched. You could imagine Irma not wanting the shame of that situation and going for the easy option of pretending he was dead. (There's one to file in for my sensationalist Fantasy Corrie for the 60th  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> )</blockquote>