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| Anna (with Chanel), Me, Luisella and Franco |
This day 71 years ago I was born in Holles St Hospital in Dublin. My mother had spent the war with my grandparents at their farm in south Armagh and my dad, once demobbed, travelled over from England and got a job in the Customs & Excise in Newry, nearby. I fancy my mother preferred her baby to be born in the Republic rather than the North and so she betook herself to Dublin instead of Newry maternity hospital. Whatever - I ended up as part Irish and part English!
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| Marilena looks on as I make a wish. |
The whole family cooked the lunch - thin escalopes of pork with mushrooms, twists of Italian sausage, super-thin fried slices of fried aubergine/courgettes - and Luisella made a special birthday cake. Delicious. Made me feel like a prince.
This evening some people from the other flats in the building will probably call in to give me their good wishes - and receive a slice of cake for their trouble.
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