30th July 2008 Three of us who had been in secondary school together met in Chichester today. Aged 63 going on 64 I had not met Jean since 1959. That's 49 years ago!
How little did I realise then that at the early age of fourteen the decisions that I made started me out on a path through life that is so different from the other girls in the convent school we attended.
When I left Holy Family School I was still a child yet I entered a convent to start training to be a nun. I still loved 'Wind in the Willows' at the same time as becoming very interested in Elvis Presley, Tommy Steel and Cliff Richard. I wanted to jive wearing a hoop through my petticote but when two of the nuns from the same Order that had taught me in Ireland, came on teaching practice in our school, I went away on a Vocation Day that they held in Henley on Thames and left home that August.
There are so many 'what if's' and too many consequences!
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