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Nadine Bjursten
My grandfather's brother on my mother's side moved to Denmark from Sweden and married. He and his wife had four boys. He would leave this wife for another woman and move back to Sweden but she would remain in Denmark. According to my great aunt, 96, she had nerves of steel. Her children would become part of the resistance against Nazi Germany, and my aunt believes she was as well. One was shot in the Baltic while trying to swim away from the Nazis. One she had to retrieve from a hotel room, murdered. The third was killed on the street. Only one son is said to have survived the Nazis but my aunt does not know what happened to him.
Nadine Bjursten
I would spend a week as a guest in Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey’s summer house in the Scottish archipelago of Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye (Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse) before the war.
I would walk on the beach with the Ramsey children and spend some time speaking to Lily Broscoe but mostly to Mrs. Ramsey. We would have a lot to say to each other about children, husbands, relationships in general. We would gossip a bit about the other guests, do some matchmaking. We would periodically burst into mild fits of laughter at the whole being human thing.
I would walk on the beach with the Ramsey children and spend some time speaking to Lily Broscoe but mostly to Mrs. Ramsey. We would have a lot to say to each other about children, husbands, relationships in general. We would gossip a bit about the other guests, do some matchmaking. We would periodically burst into mild fits of laughter at the whole being human thing.
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