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From: "Peggy Sheffield" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Our youthful innocence - a Christmas Story
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:18:29 -0600
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Hello Hazel,
Just loved your story and my kids will get a bang out of it I know. I
got into difficulties with 'queer' (as in not feeling well) and 'knocked
up' - quite a different meaning in this country, although one never seems to
hear it nowadays. Thanks for the laugh!
PEGGY
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From: "hlmw" <>
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: [WARBRIDES] Our youthful innocence - a Christmas Story


> Now that we War Brides are elderly, it is hard to imagine how innocent
> and inexperienced we were when we married men during a war and followed
> them to strange lands where customs were so vastly different from what
> we had been used to.
> Here is my Christmas Story - I hope others have some too!
> My husband was on night-shift at a local factory. I had been longing to
> put up some Christmas lights but we were broke and really couldn't
> afford to buy and run strings of lights. Outdoor lighting was just
> coming into vogue. I spotted a red light bulb in a store and bought it
> thinking it would give the front step a bright and cheery appearance.
> Shortly after midnight a car full of men coming off shift drew up in
> front of our house. I could hear the shouts and laughter and went to the
> door too see what was going on. My husband flew in through the door and
> hollered: "What are you thinking of? Get that ------ light out of there
> right now!"
> I went into shock because I did not know what I had done that was wrong.
> I knew nothing about Red Light Districts or the significance of the red
> light. I was young, embarassed and humiliated. The whole town knew
> about it by the next morning.
> Sometime after all the fur and dust settled (I was rather hot-headed) my
> husband drove me through a red light district where ladies lounged out
> of windows and waved at us.
> Little red whore-houses on the prairie! I even had to find out what a
> whore was!!!
> Love to all,
> Hazel
>
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