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The day my mother met the man who bombed her
My mother Mary (Mama) in her 1944 German slave worker ID card photo, and Russell in his Royal Canadian Air Force uniform; 50 years later...
Halina St James
Jun 26, 20232 min read
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My Two Fathers
I had two fathers: Stanislaw Zebrowski, my birth father, and Frank Uzarowski, my step father. One I never knew; one I knew as well as he...
Halina St James
Jun 12, 20232 min read
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My mother's makeshift mascara
One lesson I took from my mother was 'be resourceful.' She might be living in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany after World War 2; she...
Halina St James
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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