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Dame Joanna Lumley

The Travel Diaries

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The Dream Little Holly

My father was working because he was a working soldier. And so sometimes he'd disappear into the jungle for three months. This was fighting off the communist invasion coming down from the North of the terrorists who would terrorize and kill the villagers unless they turned communist. My sister and I went to the army school. We'd walk there every day. One of the roads was covered with crystal quartz. So it sparkled like diamonds. You walked on a road of diamonds to school. When we came back, our long hair, which is in plats, was wet through, wet through with sweat. But you could hear below in the forests, monkeys whooping in the trees. What an incredible

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