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2nd October 2016 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Making Connections

When I was about thirteen, my mother quietly told me that my father had been married before he had met her, that it had been one of those war time marriages when they were both very young and which, like so many, should never have happened. The marriage had produced a daughter who had been adopted.

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