5/27/2023 0 Comments Fit to be Dead by Nancy G. West![]() ![]() ![]() For those who have trouble with the handwriting, it reads: “Isn’t it funny / to see a little bunny / waiting for her Mummy / to come and wipe her bummy?” 4 This was far from the last time she engaged in bawdy wordplay. ![]() 3 This incident, of her writing a fairly innocuous dirty rhyme and being excoriated by her mother, is recounted verbatim in the FitzSimmons book. She had four siblings, most of them much older. Her father left when she was very young and her strict religious mother raised her alone. I absolutely believe the crux of her stories - and given her extensive collection of war medals, so did many governments and militaries - but I also believe she inflated her tales somewhat, as many do.Ģ Nancy was born in New Zealand, and was descended from broadly western European lineage, with the exception of her great-great-grandmother Pourewa, who was Maori. Where I’ve run into these, as opposed to directly portraying verbatim what she described, I portray a more verifiably-plausible version. 1 I go into this in more detail throughout, but Nancy gave many interviews later in her life where subtle details don’t quite add up or fit. ![]()
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