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Sweeting family . . . They buried my father next day . . . I led the little cortège down the aisle. The massive oak door creaked open and we moved out into the sunlight . . . I am glad that my father – and, later, my mother – were laid to rest in Crowcombe, for the village . . . entered into my soul. I felt a regular villager. With my father at rest in the bosom of his beloved West Country, I again took to the air.
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