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greatauntoftriplets

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7. My father was there for part of it.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 23, 2022, 01:10 PM

Dec 2022

Some idiot in a tent lit a cigarette next to a gas heater which ignited. My father's hands were badly burned and so he was evacuated to a hospital in England. Had that not happened, I might never have been born.

He didn't really speak about it otherwise.

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