GI Brides: The wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love. Duncan Barrett

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СКАЧАТЬ and all they could offer Ben and Lyn was sardines on toast. As they ate, he told her about his former job as a book-keeper, and about his family back in California – how his dad would sit out on the porch at night playing the banjo and every Friday his mom would throw open their doors to the whole neighbourhood.

      ‘Your family sounds lovely,’ Lyn said, in between mouthfuls of toast.

      ‘You’re quite a chowhound!’ Ben laughed. ‘You know, you would love my mom’s homemade pizza.’

      ‘What’s pizza?’ Lyn asked.

      Ben’s jaw dropped. ‘You never had pizza? Boy, you Brits are really missing out.’

      ‘Well, I bet you’ve never had a good English roast,’ Lyn responded. She told Ben about the wonderful meals her mother used to make every Sunday before rationing started, with roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, Brussels sprouts and roast potatoes.

      The more they laughed and shared stories together, the more Lyn found she was enjoying herself. She was surprised to find she hadn’t thought about Russ for a while.

      At the end of the night, Ben walked Lyn home. He made no attempt to kiss her, but he held her hand. It felt good, Lyn realised – and unpressured.

      ‘Goodnight then,’ she told Ben, as they reached her front door. ‘I had a nice evening.’

      ‘Goodnight, Lyn,’ he replied, squeezing her hand.

      Inside, Lyn went straight to the mantelpiece and picked up Russ’s letter. But this time she didn’t open the envelope, or look at the photograph. Instead, she took it straight upstairs to her bedroom and shut it away in a drawer.

      On her next date with Ben, Lyn gave him her undivided attention – and he gave her his unqualified devotion. It was clear that he was smitten, and at times he would drift off from talking and simply gaze at her.

      At first, it made Lyn feel a little uncomfortable. ‘What is it?’ she asked, as Ben sat staring at her in silence.

      ‘Boy, you really don’t know how cute you are,’ he replied. After that, Lyn decided that she rather liked it.

      Soon, Ben and Lyn were seeing each other every evening. He treated her like royalty, always taking her coat for her, pulling out her chair at the table and bringing her chocolates and flowers. He persisted in calling her his ‘chowhound’ whenever he saw her stuffing her face, which always made her laugh.

      When Ben and Lyn went to the pictures together they would stroll back home afterwards through Watts Park. It was on one of these walks that Lyn saw another side of Ben’s character that raised him even further in her estimation.

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