Finding Out
	This story is about my quest to find out; how I went to St Lawrence's and went through their records to see how I was put in there and all the rest of it, and all the things I didn't know when we first wrote my story. I also went to the archives in London and we went to the record office in Bedford to look at a diary from a children's home which was run by nuns. Dorothy and me have done a lot of other things as well. We've made phone calls, we've got photographs, we've got bits out of newspapers and I've talked to my family. I didn't even know about my family when I was in St Lawrence's. There's so much I didn't know that I'm finding out now. I went to St Lawrence's and I went to the archives. Some of it, like the names they called you in them days, hurt a little bit but otherwise I think it was great. It was something I needed to find out. And going to the archives, that was great again, that was somewhere I've never been, and I enjoyed it. It would be smashing if half of this could be put in another book so it would say this is what Mabel said about this. I went with Dorothy to St Lawrence's, and Gloria came, and we went up, and we had a look. They said we could look through their records, my records, and they were very nice to us. We sat in a little room for ages, it was 12 o'clock when we stopped, and then we asked could I take some of them away, that I would like some of them. They said to me, 'The ones you want you put on one side, and the ones you don't want put on the other side'. The ones I didn't want were not about the family, and they're not about anything that would interest people outside. I put to one side everything about me and my family. I asked for the family records because I'd always been told that I had no one, except Aunt Edie. But Aunt Edie didn't want the rest of the family to know about me at all. Aunt Edie just wanted me for Aunt Edie, and the other parts of the family, no way! And then when Aunt Edie died, we went to her flat, and I found out I had another cousin, Marjorie, and her husband, Pom. And it all came back to me that I had people, a family.