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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 s 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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