Look around at your family, and you'll find some remarkable people - and look a little beyond your immediate group to slightly more distant relatives, and you'll find some people who amaze you.
We knew her as "Molly" but by birth she was Mary O'Loughlin White; Dad's cousin who we met from time to time, and who passed away towards the end of last month. "I haven't seen an obituary this long ..." said the priest who officiated at her funeral yesterday, and indeed she had been an accomplished journalist on the staff of the Witney Gazette, which he had in his hand.
But how many of us have (or will) learn to fly - to get a pilot's license - in our 50s? How many of us will fly with the RAF's heavy lift aircraft, and helicopters from other nations too, for famine relief in Ethiopia? And write
"The Foodbirds" - a book on her experiences too.
(written 2008-05-02, updated 2008-05-07)
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