Saturday, September 27, 2008

Mum's 93rd Birthday

Yesterday was 26th September 2008 when I remembered my Mother's 93rd birthday. She was born on that day in 1915 when her mother was going to name her Alexander after my Grandma's younger brother who had been killed, aged 20, at Gallipoli, on 2 May 1915. Mum, however, turned out to be a girl, so she was named Betty Alexandra. Mum died on 17th July 1984, aged 68 from inoperable lung cancer due to smoking, something I gave up when I was 8 after one puff. Yes, I think I did inhale, since you ask, but never again. Would that Mum had done the same then.

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