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Oh Cecilia, You’re Breaking My Heart

4 July, 2017
Posted in: Family, Princess

My father is 92 and my aunt has just turned 88. When I had dinner with them recently, I asked my aunt about toys of her youth. “Well,” she said, “I remember I had a beautiful rag doll called Cecilia.” “You can’t possibly remember that after all these years,” objected my father. “Yes, I do,” she countered, “because she was named after aunt Cecilia who made her for me and you took her and nailed her to a tree when you were playing cowboys and indians.” Can I reassure anxious readers that sibling relations have improved since the early 1930s? But, poor Cecilia, never forgotten.

Mildly related: I wanted to call the Princess Cecilia after the very same aunt but Mr. Waffle put his foot down. I made her take it for her confirmation name instead because that was before she was a teenager and I had some influence; recently she has been torturing me by saying, “But did I really take Cecilia or did I just tell you that?”

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  1. Charles Lock says

    6 July, 2017 at 19:44

    Inform No1 daughter of Cecelia’s martyrdom at an appropriate moment, possibly on a family walk….

  2. belgianwaffle says

    7 July, 2017 at 22:26

    On the basis that the walks can’t get any worse?

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