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[elmwood]

When she arrived in England from South Africa in 1945 her new family thought she was glamorous and exotic and looked like Dorothy Lamour.

How strange it must have been leaving the warmth of South Africa and coming to a drab, war-wracked Britain where rationing still ruled. For a city girl who had grown up in Pretoria, it must have been stranger

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[quiller77]

A lovely way to commemorate your parents, Gillian.