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My Beautiful Daughter
Julie Bracken posted a photo:
I suppose it all started when I was just 16, fast approaching 60 years ago.
At my all-boys boarding school when I was cast in the main female role in Shakespeare’s King Lear. In all my glory, I was Cordelia, the youngest of King Lear’s three daughters, and his favourite.
Dressed in a gorgeous virginal long white organza dress, fully made up, I was every inch the lady; to the extent that I vividly recall my mother proudly declaring ‘my beautiful daughter’.
Little did she know, if ever…. as I went to Sandhurst and joined the macho world of the licentious soldiery, serving 12 years in the British army, in UK, Bahrain, Berlin and of course many tours of duty in Northern Ireland. And when I left the army in 1977, I was then fully engrossed in starting a second career.
It was only in retirement that the ‘ache’ fully returned and Julie’s nascent spirit was re-energized.
For the past decade, ‘Julie’ has steadily impinged on my male persona, to the extent that she has become the twin sister I never had.
K – Electric Blue 1
9 Feb 18
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