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50 years ago......

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Annobel Mon 25-Jun-12 10:57:34

.......I graduated. I can remember, as if it were yesterday, lining up with my contemporaries in alphabetical order, outside the graduation hall where my father had graduated 28 years previously. Proud parents waited inside for the graduands to file in. St Andrews was sunny, if not hot. There was also a feeling of relief - I'd made it! And miraculously I'd lost a good deal of weight in the run-up to the exams.

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chunckey Tue 16-Apr-13 15:32:25

I was just about to join the army, best years of my life, within 3 months of joining up I was in Kenya and stayed there till they had their independence in 1964. I went all round the world, good days.

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FlicketyB Tue 16-Apr-13 18:15:27

Deedaa I had a similar but different problem. My father was in the army and stationed in Germany. Home for the summer vacation in summer '63, I went down to the forces sailing club and had a lovely afternoon crewing for a really dishy guy, things were going swimmingly to the extent that the next step should have been a drink at the bar and a date, but we got ashore, he thanked me politely for crewing for him and was gone.

I later discovered that he was a Warrant Officer but I was an officer's daughter and never the twain could date. It was one of the many reasons that by the time I was 10 I had decided I would never marry anyone in the services. I was fed up with my social life and friends being governed by my father's rank.

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Flowerofthewest Tue 16-Apr-13 20:49:22

BAnanas :D - Gorki, he had a lucky escape then with my friend Romi

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