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I didn’t want to be a real schoolgirl anywhere else

   In England I was at a very old-fashioned school, ‘Ladies’ College’, Cumberland Gardens, St Leonards-on-Sea. I spent a really lovely year. One evening, when I was already upstairs in my dormitory, someone came and said there was somebody downstairs who wanted to see me; I should put on my dressing-gown. I did so and went down. There was a policeman standing there. I knew him a little because each time when we went off somewhere, we had to go to the police station to tell them the address. That’s how I knew this policeman, and he took his piece of paper – he couldn’t look me in the eye – and read out what it said, that a new edict had come out that any German or Austrian national had to leave and go 30 miles inland.
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