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The Lighter Side / Re: 96 years ago
« on: Monday 16 April 07 16:01 BST (UK) »
My great aunt is 102 this year and still as sharp as pin! I love listening to her tales of childhood in London.They were VERY poor, there lodgings burnt down when she was about 10 and they were homeless! The red cross fed them! Her aunt wanted to take her to America to start a new life in 1912 but her parents wouldn`t let her go and the ship that she would have sailed on sank on it`s maiden voyage!( I realised she was talking about the Titanic)She would follow the friut and veg barrows and when no one was looking would cut the bags open with a knife to let all the fruit fall on the floor and as it did her "gang" would grab the fruit and run!It was how they survived! she said she was ALWAYS hungry!