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I couldn't look at him gave us chocolates came back for me

'Well, I was sixteen. It was 1942 and my mother and I lived in a small village in the country. My father wasn't there. He was away in the war. 'Suddenly, on 26th January, (a)___________________ Hundreds of American soldiers, GIs*, came to the village. Ooh! We girls in the village loved them! They were so different from English boys. They talked to us. They (b)________________________ about cars and football. They (c) ___________________ and nylon stockings. Every day was like Christmas Day! 'And the way they danced! Oh, they danced like in the films. I met Hank at the Saturday dance. I think I fell in love the first (d)______________. I was so shy that (e)_________________________, but he took me to the dance every Saturday after that. He told me he loved shy English girls. My mother (f)__________________. We didn't know American people then.

"In 1943 Hank went to France, but we wrote to each other. We wrote for two years and at the end of the war he (g)_________________________. He took me to the States, to his home in Arizona. Well, now we have four children and twelve grandchildren!'

*GI – stands for Government Issue Am. Soldier