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Secrets and Lies

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MerylStreep Wed 25-Oct-23 16:12:09

We grew up next door to a family with 3 children. The youngest the same age as me was treated differently. Mainly other than going to school she wasn’t allowed out to play.
At 18 she discovered that her father had had an affair with a woman in the next road. This woman’s husband was away at war. The wife of the man who had the affair took the baby on.
When I was told I asked my mother if it was true: yes, my mother had always known.

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MerylStreep Wed 25-Oct-23 15:56:49

Fascinating, wasn’t it?

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NanKate Wed 25-Oct-23 15:40:27

I have just listened to the fascinating Podcast on BBC Sounds called ‘Life Changing’ with Dr Sian Williams the episode is called ‘The Baroness’. I won’t tell you the story as you might like to listen to it yourself.

It made me realise that in times gone by people regularly told lies, often to hide family secrets.

My mum born in 1910 went to a small Welsh school for a while and lived with her Mum, Aunty and cousin. Once or twice a year she and my Nan went to visit her grandmother in Birmingham. When asked by the teacher where she was going she innocently said ‘my mum says we are going away for the hunting season’ ! My mum’s family always had delusions of grandeur.

My niece was visiting my mum in the 1970s and was given a portrait oil painting. My niece said it was lovely to have a genuine painting of her great-grandmother. My mother gave me a look as if to say ‘don’t say anything’ ! To this day my niece thinks the painting is of her relative. I’m keeping schtum.

Do you have any similar secrets in your family ?

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