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Christmas was a special time, as it is for many children. A few weeks before. a food parcel would arrive from Auntie Margaret in New Zealand, full of mysteries like tins of peaches, pears, ham and so on. Each year I would get the Rupert annual, and a book from Aunt Marjory. One I remember was Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. Another book, a year or so, later, was Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, and my Dad used to read to me from it.

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