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#1: My Only Escape Author: brie, Location: Glasgow, aka the land of boredom

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:37 pm
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Staring up at the stars from her window she took a deep breath smelling the fresh fragrant air of a midsummers night.

Leaning out over her window ledge she closed her eyes and prayed. Over the years she had become more devout, finding a comfort in telling her problems to someone who never told her she was infirm and easily excited, or considered her to be little more than a schoolgirl, yet who felt she had an insight into others which she knew that she did not have.

What was to come next she wondered? There were few days left and then nothing she supposed, an empty, boring life as her sister's nursemaid. She loved her nephews and nieces but could she not just continue her carefree existence?

She wouldn't become like her sister though she resolved. The spirited, determined woman she had once known had been broken by domesticity.And she loved her brother-in-law but if she ever married she would not marry a man like him, but a man who valued her as his equal and who did not expect her purpose in life to be to keep him a nice home.

She wouldn't marry though she didn't think, she didn't want to be so tied down, why could she not have the freedom to do what she wanted? She was not stupid, she knew what the life ahead of her would be like, and how would she keep her personality as more and more responsibility was heaped upon her?

She was not a leader, she was not a thinker, and she often put herself before others, she loved those that she loved to much, and hated those that did not think like her. This year she had started to change, and she was not sure she liked the person she was becoming, so what would next year make her?

But her only escape was to marry, and would that not be just moving from one prison to another?

#2: Author: Rosalin, Location: Swansea

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:00 pm
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Interesting set of thoughts. It's a far cry from leaving school today where most people are looking forward to university or a job and independence.

I'm guessing it is Joey at the end of New House, but with more insight into her own character than EBD managed.

Thanks Brie.

#3: Author: La Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:53 pm
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Thank-you Brie, it's very understandable. I always found it hard to believe how quickly Joey changed her mind.

#4: Author: linda, Location: Leeds

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:14 pm
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I agree with Rosalin, it's an interesting set of thoughts.

How true this feeling must have been for many girls of that era when all that was expected of them was that they would marry and have children, exchanging the role of dutiful daughter for that of dutiful wife. Rolling Eyes

#5: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:17 pm
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Thanks, brie. That was a really interesting insight.

#6: Author: Fiona Mc, Location: Bendigo, Australia

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:42 am
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My first thought was is it Robin but can see how its more Joey than Robin. Thanks Brie

#7: Author: wheelchairprincess, Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:18 pm
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Like Fiona, I too thought it was Robin to start with but then came to the conclusion it had to be Joey. This is an amazing insight Brie, thank you.

#8: Author: Smile :), Location: Location? What's a location?

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:24 pm
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Thanks Brie, an interesting insight.

#9: Author: Vick, Location: Leeds, Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:57 pm
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Very interesting thoughts.

Thanks Brie

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