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2019 Stories
2019 Stories
Stories contributed by the Hertfordshire community in 2019.
A knock on the door changed my life
"we thought we were king of the walk."
A Woman's Education
“This year after allocation to all the boys, there was only enough to fund 3 girls” and I was not one of them.
Bombed Out
"my dad roused me and my brother and sister to get out of a burning house"
Competition
"How does the world look when it’s at war?"
Fairytale Of New York
"You can't force love"
Father Figure?
"it feels like it will never end, but it does end!"
Lowry's Workers
"When a customer asked for Durex, I pretended not to hear, so they said it louder.."
My East End Schooldays
"Books are your windows on the world"
Parcel of Dreams
"So my little parcel of dreams surfaced from the drawer broke out of their tissue paper and cotton wool and my journey began..."
Prosperity or Principles
"The polished gentleman asked me to leave and invited anyone else who felt as I did to do the same"
Road Trip
16 young lads on a 6 week journey
Teenage Pregnancy
"when I was 13 I started dating a guy who was 23. He had a car and used to pick me up from school. No one batted an eyelid – how different life is today!"
The Apprenkiss
"... looking back I realise how desperate I was to want that individual male attention"
The Floating Hand
"he steps into the hoop and waddles, mincing into the water intent on reaching the hand."
The Journey
"Not quite belonging to either cultural setting we continued working hard and making something of ourselves, which was our chief objective and not blending in to our host nation"
The story we share
"It's a nudge to get my own life in order too, reminding me to following my dreams"
Volunteering changed my life
"The build up to my GCSEs were excruciating, the constant reminder from teachers that the exams where coming up and that it would define the rest of your life"
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