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    The narrator visits the address her deceased mother had given her to find belongings that were stored there during the war. When she arrives, Mrs. Dorling, who stored the items, acts strangely and refuses to acknowledge the narrator. The narrator explores the home further and finds herself surrounded by her family's belongings but in a strange and unpleasant environment. Overwhelmed with memories, she decides it is best to leave the past in the past and move forward without the belongings linking her to her mother and the war.

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    The narrator visits the address her deceased mother had given her to find belongings that were stored there during the war. When she arrives, Mrs. Dorling, who stored the items, acts strangely and refuses to acknowledge the narrator. The narrator explores the home further and finds herself surrounded by her family's belongings but in a strange and unpleasant environment. Overwhelmed with memories, she decides it is best to leave the past in the past and move forward without the belongings linking her to her mother and the war.

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    The narrator visits the address her deceased mother had given her to find belongings that were stored there during the war. When she arrives, Mrs. Dorling, who stored the items, acts strangely and refuses to acknowledge the narrator. The narrator explores the home further and finds herself surrounded by her family's belongings but in a strange and unpleasant environment. Overwhelmed with memories, she decides it is best to leave the past in the past and move forward without the belongings linking her to her mother and the war.

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    The Address

    Minoo
    →
    Marga
    No 46
    .

    This is a moving story of a daughter who


    goes in search of her mother’s
    belongings after the War, in Holland. The
    Marconi
    narrator is the daughter of Mrs S., who Street
    died during the war. The narrator went to

    Dorling
    number 46, Marconi Street to see Mrs
    Dorling who was an old acquaintance of
    Mrs -

    her mother, and who had removed


    almost all the belongings of her mother
    during the war to this place. All this was
    done with Mrs S’s silent consent as Mrs
    Dorling wanted to save her things, which
    they would lose if they had to leave the
    place.
    The narrator had seen Mrs Dorling
    for the first time during the first half of
    the war. She had come home for a
    few days and noticed the change in
    the rooms. She missed various things.
    Her mother informed her that Mrs
    Dorling had moved these things to
    safety and gave her the address 46,
    Marconi Street. After the war, the
    narrator visited the address her
    mother had given her. She
    remembered Mrs Dorling clearly.

    She was woman with a broad back.


    Mrs Dorling looked at the narrator
    searchingly and showed no sign of
    recognition. She kept staring in
    silence. She saw that the narrator,
    who had recognised her mother’s
    green knitted cardigan, was looking
    at it. She half hid herself behind the
    door and refused to see her. She was
    surprised to see the narrator who had
    survived from the war.
    The narrator returned to the station
    and boarded the train. While in train
    she remembered the first time she
    had seen Mrs Dorling and how her
    mother had introduced her to her old knock !
    acquaintance and given the address.

    After the first fruitless visit to Mrs


    knock
    Dorling’s house, the narrator visited
    the place a second time. This time, a
    girl of about fifteen opened the door
    to her. She asked the girl if her
    mother was at home. Since she was
    away, the narrator decided to wait
    for her.

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    She followed the girl along the passage.


    The first thing that struck her was an old-
    fashioned iron Hanukkah candle-holder
    -

    hung next to a mirror. Then they went


    into the living room. The narrator was
    horrified as she was in a room she knew
    and did not know. She found herself in
    the midst of things she had so wanted to
    see again, but which oppressed her in
    the strange atmosphere.
    The tasteless way of arrangement,
    ugly furniture and the muggy smell
    all contributed to arouse this feeling.
    She didn’t have the courage to look
    around her. She sat down and
    stared at the woollen table-cloth. As
    she followed the lines of the pattern,
    she remembered that it was their
    table-cloth, which had a burn mark
    that had never been repaired. Soon
    she found the hole.

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    The girl poured her tea from a white pot which had
    a gold border on the lid. She opened the box and
    took out some spoons. The narrator praised the
    box. Mrs Dorling’s daughter said that it was an
    antique. They had got lots more and she pointed
    round the room. The narrator knew very well which
    things she meant. She remarked that the cutlery-
    spoons, forks and knives was silver. The girl
    laughed. She walked to the side board and wanted
    to open a drawer.
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    The narrator fell perturbed. The objects
    linked with her mother, aroused memories
    of her former life. At first she was eager
    to see them, but now they had lost their
    value since they were severed from her
    mother and were stored in strange
    surroundings. Moreover, they were
    useless to her in her present state. She
    lived in a small rented room with space
    for no more than a handful of cutlery
    fitted in the narrow table drawer.
    She resolved to forget

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    the address. She wanted "
    to leave the memories of
    her mother and the war
    behind her and decided
    to move on.
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