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East is East and West is West, Never the Twain shall Meet
By: Beryl BadwalImprint: AuthorHouse
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My dear Readers, I must admit, my friends were right in persuading me to write this story of all the memories that were stored in my mind, going back further than my 70-odd years, to my Ancestors, such tales I could tell of my mysterious Great Grand mother, and my lovable courageous Grandparents. I'm sure if you proceed you will wonder how one person could survive through this adventure. I will give you a hint,.Imagine before you a beautiful homemade quilt, with many paterns. Now, lightly run your hand over the surface, can you feel all the different textures and materials?velvet against jute, silk against cotton, each one signifie's a different Time or period in my life, and an emotion. are you ready to go? I will take you from the rural peaceful setting of the English Village of Romiley, to my Palacial home in India As a child you will feel the fear, hearing the Bombing, then to the sound of the Big Band era in the Ballrooms of Blackpool, England. Join me on the 'Boards' in the excitement of the Stage. I fall into unusual circustances where there is Intrigue into Countries from BC Canada to the Punjab, India with its Casts, Culture and Corruption. You come up against Prejudice and anger .I will take you from the cruelty of the classroom as a child and leave you in the Wards of my Hospital as a Student Nurse,to face a cruel Matron and experience my nightmare of injustice, The helplessness I felt whilst in 'Burnout', and the emotions of greiving for a lost child. undiscribeable depths Iove, passion, anger and hurt I shared with a man who lived in a different culture and world. My Dear Reader, Did I fail?? Time Will Tell.!
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| Title of eBook: East is East and West is West, Never the Twain shall Meet | |
| Release Date: 11-16-2009 | |
| Publisher: AuthorHouse |
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| SKU | 9781449029845 |
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East is East and West is West, Never the Twain shall Meet
Chapter One
My Beginnings
My dear reader, as you begin to learn of my journey, you will likely come to realize the type of personality I developed to enable me to survive this adventure. Are you prepared for this experience? I can give you a hint if you want; if not, I don't mind if you skip a few lines. Shall we begin?
We will be off to a good start if you can imagine my adventures as that of a large, patterned quilt. Run your hand over it and feel the different textures and types of silks, cottons, and wools used, the roughness of jute and the smoothness of velvet-each material contributing to the pattern of my life.
Each texture and square is a different emotion and experience I have had throughout my seventy-odd years. My quilt includes the joy of happy events to the sadness of tragedies. My experiences range from a flamboyant stage career to a serious, sedate endeavor in medicine. After my early, hellish school years, I travel to Canada and experience the modern Data College, where I slip into the frightening world of burnout and fight to return to sanity. As you read, you will travel with me to other countries, cultures, and attitudes and end up back in the present day.
Let us begin in Romiley, a very small town within the borders of Cheshire, England. It is a few miles from Stockport, a few miles from Manchester, and just over the border of Lancashire.
This is where my life began, just one year before World War II broke out. I was born in 1938 in the merry month of May at my grandparents' home-a fish and chip shop that they owned and lived in.
The story is, that I "came
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