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John Aslem: am a good man...
| Seeking: | Female Age 18 to 43 | | Status: | 51 Divorced Straight Female | | Location: | | | Interest In: | Activity Partner | | Ethnicity: | White/Caucasian | | Living: | Live by myself | | Eye Catcher: | No Answer | | | Height: | 6'0 inches | | Body: | Average | | Hair/Eyes: | Black, Black | | Smoke: | No way | | Drink: | Only socially | | Exercise | Sometimes | | Politics: | None | | | Education: | High school | | Religion: | Christian | | Income: | $25,001 to $45,000 | | Occupation: | Riting Stories | | Offspring: | 1 child | | Personality: | Funny | | Country: | Nigeria | |
MY STORY
“Sam could not remember much about the crash, until he found himself in the hospital bed with tubes in his mouth and nose and bottles of blood blood hanging on frames over his head. It had been a terrible nightmare of people shouting, blue lights flashing, stretchers, fire engines, the ambulance men lifting him out of the wrecked car.” You are reading fiction, not fact, but for “Sam” substitute “Norman” and for “car” substitute “rubble” – and you are suddenly in the real world at Brighton in 1984, in the aftermath of the IRA bomb that injured the author and condemned his wife to a wheelchair for life.
More by this authorReasons to be Tory 9 Higher public service satisfaction levels despite the public spending squeezeReasons to be Tory 8 The fuel duty freezeReasons to be Tory 7 Grayling’s rehabilitation reforms“Write what you know, ” Mark Twain said, and Lord Tebbit has taken his advice. The cover of “Ben’s Story, ” a novel for childen – his first – makes the point. On the front is the silhouette of a boy in a wheelchair. On the back is a photograph of Lady Tebbit in hers. Lord Tebbit kneels at her side. A labrador sits beside him. “Ben’s Story” is the tale of a crippled boy Sam and a guide dog Ben. It draws on the work of Canine Partners, the charity that provided Lady Tebbit with a reallife Ben – the dog in that photo. It reveals much about Norman Tebbit, the man as well as the politician.The story pits Sam and Ben and their friends against the man who murdered Sam’s father, confined Sam to his chair, and now seeks to kill him too. In prose as well as politics, Lord Tebbit tends to see the world in black and white. “Ben’s Story” has heroes Royal Marines, MI6 agents, charity workers, investigative journalists. Lord Tebbit once worked for the Financial Times. It also has villains drug gangs, the Taliban, the IRA, the Russians. One of the latter turns out to be good – “the English treat their dogs like people and I’m afraid all too often we Russians treat people like dogs, ” he says – but he is the exception who proves the rule.
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