The Factory Girl
“The previous Tuesday at exactly eleven o’clock the whole country had stopped whatever it was doing to stand in silence for two minutes to contemplate the millions of men that had perished in that bitter four and a half years of conflict.
Geraldine’s family had been so lucky, no one at all in her family lost to that war, not even to the devastating Spanish flu that had raged for months and months afterwards killing thousands in its wake. Mum was the one to point out how lucky this family had bee...n to escape both onslaughts.
‘Just that one old aunt of mine, an’ she was in ’er seventies, and me cousin what I never see, and one of ’er daughters about your age, Gel. All in all we’ve come through without a scratch. I know we ain’t got much money wiv yer dad and Wally always in an’ out of work at the docks, but none of our family was killed in the war, thank Gawd. So we ’ave bin lucky I should say. And now you’ve got yerself a nice young man.’ Of all of them Geraldine thought herself the luckiest.MoreLess
Geraldine’s family had been so lucky, no one at all in her family lost to that war, not even to the devastating Spanish flu that had raged for months and months afterwards killing thousands in its wake. Mum was the one to point out how lucky this family had bee...n to escape both onslaughts.
‘Just that one old aunt of mine, an’ she was in ’er seventies, and me cousin what I never see, and one of ’er daughters about your age, Gel. All in all we’ve come through without a scratch. I know we ain’t got much money wiv yer dad and Wally always in an’ out of work at the docks, but none of our family was killed in the war, thank Gawd. So we ’ave bin lucky I should say. And now you’ve got yerself a nice young man.’ Of all of them Geraldine thought herself the luckiest.MoreLess
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