Doris Lorkins (1933-2017)
I was born in June 1933 and adopted as a child by a couple who wanted different things. The husband …
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Paulette Bodansen
I was born in England just before WWII. My mother was British and my father French as he was born …
Tom Fox
The army had posted my father out to Kenya during the Mau Mau revolt in 1952 and he later persuaded …
Faye Yazdani (1929-2020)
I was born in Karachi on 25th December 1929. Both my parents were Bahá’ís from Persia, and they settled in …
Philomena Clifford
I grew up as one of nine children from an Irish-Catholic background in Bilston, a town in the west midlands. …
Jan Mughrabi (1931 – 2023)
Childhood I was born on the first of March, 1931 in West London as my parents were living at the …
Mike Gammage
I became a Bahá’í, that is, I realised that I’d become a believer, early one morning in October 1980 in …
Denise Samari
I was born on the 10th of February 1963, the youngest child of four children. It was one of the …
David Menham
As a Geordie I was brought up to believe that Newcastle upon Tyne was the centre of the universe and …
Keith Munro
I was born a war-child at 7.20pm in Johnson House Maternity home in the industrial city of Belfast. Hitler’s Luftwaffe …
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