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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-5
Posted in Angie's Blog
by Angie Bowie
June 30, 2025
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-5

Words are like seeds. Plant them in a line and they give you prose. Plant them in disarray and they give you poetry I was thrilled to be back in the UK after the Connecticut College for Women debacle, it was a Sejour of less than three months in New Haven. My experience of the United States in 1966, remind me of being beaten with a culture stick. The few fond memories I have were thanks to my room-mate Peggy whose hospitality at her home in New York allowed me to visit Manhattan and Greenwich Village and see a double bill...
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by Angie Bowie
March 3, 2025
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-4

by Angie Bowie Barnett January 2025 By 1964, I had spent every Easter vacation in England with wonderful friends we met in Cyprus. I adored Aunty Alice and Uncle Bob and my best friend was their daughter Susan. Uncle Bob was a teacher at the technical college in Lefka, the same technical school gifted to Cyprus by CMC. Their generous hospitality allowed me to experience the natural and suburban side of England. The Life we experienced at the hands of the British authorities in the colonies and overseas territories was totally different to Easter vacations in Epsom and getting to ride the train...
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-3
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by Angie Bowie
January 6, 2025
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-3

Let’s RECAP! Helen and I returned to the United States for me to attend a Catholic School and get my First Communion in 1957 Mom and I returned to Cyprus on the ship after my first Holy Communion at St. Mary’s School in Boise, Idaho, the home of my father’s sister. We returned in time for me to go back to the CMC school in September of 1958. What a time that was in the Eastern Mediterranean!  Mom and I were glad to be back with Dad. His lunchtime summaries of the contents of the Cyprus Daily Mail gave one...
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-2
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by Angie Bowie
October 28, 2024
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-2

Hi! Hola! Salut! BIRTHDAYS ARE HUGE! I take a month every year to celebrate my BirthDay and Name Day. My parents were Helen and George Barnett, my birthplace – CYPRUS – In Cyprus and many countries Name Days are celebrated with as much energy and enthusiasm as birthdays.   As AMANDA, a new young friend put it, ‘BLOG1 was quite the history lesson’ And it will stay that way, as I will explain. All the interesting and weird mythology that accompanies being born in a certain place or at a certain time and when the stars are in their magnificent changing...
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-1
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by Angie Bowie
September 1, 2024
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THE COLONEL’S DAUGHTER-1

What a wild time! You see your Life as bright shiny segments for the next adventure! You prep the events that you feel need to be recalled. Suddenly the Time is Upon You! I have received great support and help from Casper at Word Press and his team. They have helped me renovate my site of 20 years because finally Technology’s advances Triumphed. My wonderful website was built for me by M, my Love and Partner of 32 years because my dear friend Dick Richards gifted me the domain name in the year 2000. Life is a fire that burns...
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