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I spoke for an hour in Dutch with a cousin, face-to-face, online, discussing family matters. He is to visit in a few days. His friend has written a book about my mother’s father. The family has a remarkable history during the Second World War. There are lessons to be learned. But along with tragedy, there’s also inspiration. Understandably, different members of the family—there were 11 children originally—feel differently about ‘coming out’. Still, it was 70 years ago.

Mum is one of only 2 surviving sisters. She’s be a year and month older than Annelies Frank would have been.

Today: D5 J1    

Total: J100 D90 G30 Sp20 P16 F11