At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
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Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.Diane Cilento
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
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Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
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There was that thing of girls. Girls don't have to do anything. Little blondie pretty girls don't really have to know anything much.
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My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.
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