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Young Man’s Desire: Memories of Boarding School in the '60s and '70s by Rod Madocks

Girls! Feminine giggles and shadowy shapes in the October dusk. There I was in the quadrangle between the library building and the chapel

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Christmas, Elsewhere by Heather Gatley

It was 1963. A blizzard blew across the grass outside the married quarters where we lived in RAF St Athan.

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Aunt Jean by Tracy Kauffman Wood

Aunt Jean would read popular psychology books on the #50 trolley as it bounced down Fourth Street in fits and starts toward Passyunk Avenue.

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Homemade Halloween by Auriel Roe

We’d hollow out rock hard swedes with sharp knives. When we lit the stump of a candle inside them, the smell of singed swede was beguiling.

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Migrants by Sam Letourneau

In 1975, my family emigrated from England to Australia. I escaped from a cold, dank, inner-city London to the bright sunshine of Perth.

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Houseproud by Ruth Badley

Mum’s strategy for keeping her domestic world in order involved a strict but predictable regime of household tasks that could not be altered

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When I was Famous by Neil Ferguson

The overcast sky and the wishy-washy-not-really-raining July weather is still considering its next step.

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