Friday, July 30, 2010

Random Reading: Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd #3

Photo: From the collection of Pattie Boyd via The New York Times

“My Mother wouldn’t allow us children to go to the cinema on our own—to this day I never have been inside one alone. She also said we were never to sit next to little old ladies in case they were to stick hypodermic needles into us and spirit us away into the white-slave trade—where she got this idea from I shall never know. But she had double standards: when she put me on the train to go back to boarding school she would say. “Let’s find a little old lady to look after you.” One minute they were potential abductresses and the next they were guardians.”

-Excerpt from Boyd, Pattie, and Penny Junor. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Pg.27

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