Today we know that WORLDWAR II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their BROTHER's keeper.
My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as KIDS. But it's a good KIND of COMPETITION; it's not a jealousy. You always WANT to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your SISTER, you know what I mean?
EVERYONE loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower MIDDLE class. I SLEPT in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I WANTED to be able to take care of my parents.
I CHOSE to be Mrs. Johnny CASH in my LIFE. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along BEHIND him.
I was BORN Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older SISTER, Betty. My father Fred WORKED in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my MOTHER, Mary, was a housewife.