‘You must write it all down’ is the age-old plea to elderly relatives about their childhood memories.
‘You must write it all down’ is the age-old plea to elderly relatives about their childhood memories. Fortunately P. Y. Betts, briefly a novelist in the 1930s, was 50 years later persuaded to do just that.
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