Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs

[theoriginalspy]

This is the story of a family mystery.

My great-grandmother (AKA: Nan) married rather late in life, for her time.  She was 28, and she met her husband in a very Florence Nightingale way by caring for him when he came home from WWI, blind, wounded, and suffering the aftereffects of being gassed.  They had one child -- my Gram (AKA: the only member

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[slb44]

I will add Walter to my list of personal remembrance.

Thank you for sharing his story.

[bookwyrm86]

That was very moving. Thanks a lot for sharing and helping remind us who these people actually were.

[aislingthebard]

I am thinking of Walter, and of your Nan and your Gram, and your Googie. How wonderfully and subtly interconnected they all were. Thank you for sharing this. It's wonderful.