I'll put a pot of coffee on, and then I'll go into my bedroom, drop to my knees and pray that my beautiful child is only wounded.

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' Most of the school (Barr's Hill) had been evacuated to Leamington at the beginning of the war and later to Atherstone but I, an only child, had not wanted to leave my parents.

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As a child, my friend interpreted this behavior as strange and eccentric only to read years later that all of the nutrients from the vegetables had been boiled out and were actually in the water!

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My one living daughter is somehow a little sister, a big sister and yet an only child.

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And with regard to Miss Hayden, I can only say that after, for the first time in my life, seeing a sonogram of my own child, I will never think the same exactly again.

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