From hushed conversations I realise now that the bride was usually ‘enceinte’
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s heartfelt apology for forced adoptions drove me back to my childhood in East Hull in the 1960s, where my father was curate-in-charge.
We were a bit of a wedding factory, with half a dozen weddings back-to-back each Saturday, with me having a ringside view from my place in the choir. From hushed conversations in the vicarage I realise now that the bride was usually enceinte.
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