Re: Nancy as an adult?


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on July 23, 2008 at 12:00:17 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Nancy as an adult? posted by sewingmachineman on July 22, 2008 at 10:20:32:

After her S & A adventures Nancy carried on her tomboyish behaviour.

Following service in WW11 she was admitted to a private nursing home in Grange-over-Sands suffering from a disease, believed to be AIDS, where she died in January 1945.

Hmmm... Interesting theory, but looking at the chronology of AIDS, she'd have had to sleep with a lot of sailors, mostly in West Africa, to get AIDS at that time- it was so uncommon then that she wouldn't have just picked it up on Whitehaven docks. So would Nancy have become an Africa Hand tomboy of the most sexually promiscuous kind? It somehow seems unlikely. Anyway, she'd almost certainly have got gonorrhea first, as that was a very common disease then.

Of course maybe she was working as an ambulance driver in the blackout and picked up a dose freelancing in Shepherd's Market. But still not AIDS.

More likely, marriage (to Timothy if you like although it doesn't feel consistent, for her or for him) three children, a life of formidable respectability in coastal waters and later in life the bane of Coniston Council.


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