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Justine Dowley-Wise was born in Calcutta in 1926 to British parents who lived an opulent lifestyle typical of the age when India was the Jewel of the Crown of the British Empire. As a young child, she attended boarding school in India and England and later spent her teen years in India in the shadow of World War II. There, in 1944, she met and fell in love with a handsome young British officer, Major Bill Towill, 3/9th Qurkha Rifles, who was w...

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It was my first experience of an earthquake and I was petrified as the house shook and strange rumblings could be heard sounding like a train rushing through a tunnel. As we hurried through the lounge, the furniture was sliding about and things were falling from shelves and smashing onto the floor. As we tried to hurry down the stairs it was like being on a ship in a rough sea. When we reached the garden the sound changed to a strange rhythmic...

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