The one about her hearing
One of my favourite stories of my dear daft mum is from her teaching career. As she got older, she started to lose her hearing in one ear but, as she was eternally young, she didn’t want her students to know this. In lesson one day, her students were having a discussion and she couldn’t hear them properly so asked them to speak up. When one student asked her about her hearing and why she couldn’t hear them, she promptly and without hesitation replied that she had lost hearing in one ear as she had been in a war zone…
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