A package arrived in the post from a first cousin-once-removed in Australia whom I had not seen in 49 years. The detailed description on the custom declaration read "small jacket made by your grandmother - with love -". The value read "sentimental". In England in 1939 Cynthia had married an RAF pilot and my grandmother had sewn her trousseau. Only the silk bed jacket remained. I shall find a silk padded hanger and it shall hang in my bedroom - this heart gift from the past.
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