My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once cou… — Mary Wesley

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary WesleyNovelist · British · 1912 – 2002

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