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Christine Cohen Park

1953 in My Father’s House XXI - Finale
Dear Readers, many of you have commented on my mother’s negative reaction, when she glimpses me at the gate of La Maison d’Été, along the...
Christine Cohen Park
Jun 241 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House XX - Nearer, Nearer
During the first week of the summer holidays the weather was consistently sunny. One of my father’s brothers and his wife – I can’t...
Christine Cohen Park
Jun 131 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House XIX - Summer Term: Hamsters, Shakespeare & Swimming
Poor dear Jaggi died on the day I went back to Badminton, but before I got there. Fred, the groundsman, put him into a Kleenex box for...
Christine Cohen Park
Jun 21 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House XVIII - Oh woe, I’m in trouble.
In the summerhouse at 55 Dyke Road Avenue a couple of days after Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation is a dismal scene. A dozen boys are...
Christine Cohen Park
Jun 21 min read
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