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Both Matron (at school) and my Mum swear they saw me a shade of green.
I'm not sure how that works, given I've always had a rather hectic colour. Perhaps it was the absence of that that gave the impression.
With Matron it was when I took Emily to her room after she'd slipped over outside. Her arm/ wrist was in a quite improbable shape. Matron thought I was about to faint and assumed Emily was bring me to First Aid rather than vice versa. I wasn't even trying for attention. I was so shocked that I accepted it worldlessly. I think I got hot sweet tea out of it, once the ambulance took Emily away.
And with Mum it was when I was running a fierce temperature. To the extent that the faces in the curtains were talking to me. She admitted afterwards that she was really quite worried about me, and considered getting the doctor out. From my memory she didn't. But I treasured the fact that she considered it.
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