Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Family secrets

A social leper tells you of his miserable existence

issue 28 October 2006

Two old carrier bags at the back of the cupboard I’d not noticed before. I dragged them out to see what was in them. It was old letters from the war and sepia photographs, hundreds of them. Detritus from Uncle Jack, whom we looked after in his last years when he couldn’t remember anything and took to the bottle.

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