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One thing about being left handed is you quickly learn to keep your elbow tucked into your side when eating at the dining table
My late father was a cack hander and had to write with his right hand - he wrote beautifully with both hands - but I've never been forced to use my right hand and I started school in the 1940s. I knit as though I were a right hander and use standard scissors with my right hand. I was an average art student at school, physics being my favourite subject.
I have no idea whether my father's seven siblings were left or right handed. My children are right handed and one is an artist. Only one of my nephews (a chemistry teacher) and one grandson is left handed.
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