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How extraordinary and wonderful. And thanks so much for including the obituary link. He really was a dasher, wasn't he? Loved the football match and the party.

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Greenery Street...loved it!

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Amused to see you recommending Ill Met by Moonlight. The daredevil SOE agents were eventually whisked off Crete by Major Dennis Ciclitira, who died in 1999. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1343150/Major-Dennis-Ciclitira.html

Strange connections indeed. He was my father-in-law.

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Mr Punch's advice to those about to get married. Don't. - Even harsher than Dr J! From a long ago issue of 'Punch' magazine.

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Thank you so much for this list. I will have to write this down. You wrote this so beautifully that I feel like reading all this books. And as I was reading it came to my mind the female Irish writer Maeve Brennan. Do you know her?

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Cutting straight to the chase...

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What a lovely comment - thanks so much! Heard of Maeve Brennan, haven't read. You'd now made me think I really need to remedy that...

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