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Becoming a Military Wife

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My father was in the RAF, wartime service.

I've got two brothers who were

And my older brother Harvey said

embarrassing, his words, embarrassing,

And Philip came down one day with Harvey.

I'd got flu, so I must have looked lovely.

I hadn't washed my hair

But anyway, he must have seen something

he invited me to the.

It was RAF.

Catterick, the regiment

And that was 1975.

We got engaged August 78, 76.

No, 74.

We met, 75, got married and 76.

76, we got married and 77,

I went from living in a village

in Warwickshire up to north

of Yorkshire and not knowing his soul.

There we go.

He was in the RAF.

He played the clarinet.

When he joined the RAF,

might be useful because

and he started learning music,

So, yes,

got used to him being here and being away.

We were married on paper

but we weren't together eight years

you're going here for six months,

So we're together less than four years,

A lot in four years, but, yeah.

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