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I was thirty six when I decided that life was not worth living. The year was 1960 and I always think of it as the Year of the Disaster. To start at the beginning. I was living in Bermuda at that time and 1959 had been a good year in my sixteen year old marriage, in fact it had been the best year of all. My husband had taken a Dale Carnegie course, which, he told me, had shown him that he had not treated me very well. During that year he had the hull of a speedboat built and fitted with a motor. Although not complete he took us out fishing on weekends and for the first time we found ourselves enjoying each other as part of a family, a thing that had been missing from our marriage for years. That was summer 1959 and I really thought that we had turned the corner at last and that all the storms and arguments were over and we’d reached calmer waters. How wrong I was!

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I was born in 1924 Greenwich, London, UK, and educated at St. Ursulas High School. Blackhealth evacuated to Wales in 1939. 1942-44 married Bermudian Donald Henderson, had my first child in 1944, moved to Bermuda in 1946, my husband left in 1960. I returned to Northhumberland UK to look after my mother in 1969. I left with my mother to join my sister who marrived a Kiwi fellow (in 1946)in New Zealand. I worked as an Ad writer in Christchurch then moved to Lyttelton, and worked for twelve years on the Waterfront Industry Commission as a pay clerk. I was secretary/treasurer to the Lyttelton Community Arts Council and a member of the NZ Playwrights Society. I retired late in 1995. I volunteered for Super Grans Aranui, then obtained a part time job with the Hagley Adult Literary course while working at Super Grans. I had many different jobs in Bermuda which relied on tourism, and many of my experiences have ended up as plays. I go to the Anglican Church in Lyttelton although I do not consider myself an Anglican - prefering Christianity, and I have had many experiences in different churches.

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