Dolly's Mixture (2015)
“I loved that quiet time before midnight, it was a sort of refresher course for me. But, however quiet I was when I finally went to bed, Chas would wake up and was always complaining about it. We therefore decided to purchase single divan beds – the bedroom was very large. But what to do with the double bed, that was the problem.
It would have to go, even though we’d had it such a short time. It had no stories to tell, unlike the girls’ double bed at Poplar, once shared by four sisters (defi...nitely not room for the fifth), then three, then two, then the baby, Marjorie, alone in vast state. That bed had been our library, story place, sick bed, gymnasium, a strong, iron bed with brass knobs which unscrewed. The wrought-iron ends contained birds and ivy leaves. I suppose I became a woman in that large double bed, even though at the time I thought I had met with a terrible accident, such was the ignorance of our lives. We lived in close proximity with one another, yet I did not know this same accident had befallen my older sisters at the mete and proper hour.MoreLess
It would have to go, even though we’d had it such a short time. It had no stories to tell, unlike the girls’ double bed at Poplar, once shared by four sisters (defi...nitely not room for the fifth), then three, then two, then the baby, Marjorie, alone in vast state. That bed had been our library, story place, sick bed, gymnasium, a strong, iron bed with brass knobs which unscrewed. The wrought-iron ends contained birds and ivy leaves. I suppose I became a woman in that large double bed, even though at the time I thought I had met with a terrible accident, such was the ignorance of our lives. We lived in close proximity with one another, yet I did not know this same accident had befallen my older sisters at the mete and proper hour.MoreLess
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