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  • My mother didn’t have a happy life

    My mother didn’t have a happy life

    I don’t mean that it was uniformly unhappy but after a promising start she suffered a misfortune which, despite her undoubted mental strength and determination, was to blight the rest of her life. Audrey Vickers was born in 1923 and as far as I know enjoyed a happy childhood in a stable and loving but…