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From: "jay king" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Our youthful innocence - a Christmas Story
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:58:24 -0500
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I had a laugh re. your letter I had a english friend who was also a war
bride she went back to england after about 20 yrs here ,to see her family
didnt have \any money to go before she went to the butcher shop in england
and asked for head cheese they said they had dutch cheese and lots of others
it took her awhile to remember it was called brawn in england
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Sheffield" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Our youthful innocence - a Christmas Story


> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hlmw" <>
> To: <>
> 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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