Best Mom in the World

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My father was an Army officer, so naturally my family moved around a lot when I was growing up. As a result, I didn't make a lot of friends, because I knew that almost as soon as I made them I'd have to say goodbye to them. On top of that, I was an only child, so I didn't have any brothers or sisters to play with. This made me a fairly lonely kid, and I suppose I blamed my father for that. And I didn't think that the opportunity to travel all over the world was any kind of...

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Life in a Female Household

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My dear mother died of grief shortly after my father was killed at the start of the First World War. It was then left to my father's sister to raise me along with her two daughters. Her husband was also away commanding a regiment of fusiliers somewhere in northern France and, my aunt, far from being enthusiastic about having a thirteen year old boy joining the household, resigned herself to yet further inconvenience of that damnable war and reluctantly allowed me shelter and succour within the bosom of her household provided that my own governess accompanied me and that we...

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