An age when s*x was worth waiting for... and love lasted a lifetime, as revealed in the magical memories of Britain's greatest generation who lived through two world wars
An age when s*x was worth waiting for... and love lasted a lifetime, as revealed in the magical memories of Britain's greatest generation who lived through two world wars But amazingly, for years she believed babies were delivered to her home in the doctor’s black bag. ‘I had no knowledge of sex until a girl in our class at school whispered to everyone that the baby came from inside the mum,’ she said. ‘She said that your mum and dad are together in bed and soon after that the baby comes.’ People born in the early 20th century were a remarkable breed of men and women according to a new book Poor Hetty was shocked. But her innocence about the facts of life should not be mocked. Hetty, who died in 2013, aged 108, was part of a generation born in the early years of the 20th century, whose endurance through two world wars, austerity and then the transition to the present world of affluence and consumerism marks them out as a remarkable breed of men and women. Many ...