So this is me…

…and this is my first blog.

I’m a 26 year old London girl with a Burmese mother and a white father. I had a privileged upbringing, unlike my parents. Privately schooled, living in a spacious house in a leafy London surburb, I had no idea how lucky I was until my grandmother, great aunt and great uncle died when I was 14. I realised that I had missed the opportunity to ask them so much more about Burma and their lives than I already knew. Their pride and tenacity shame me now into realising how much more there is to life than my little London bubble.

By writing this blog I hope to:

a) get down everything about my family’s very sad, insightful and bizarre family history before my mother becomes too old to tell me any more

b) discover more than she could tell me by attracting people who can help me add to the puzzle i’m putting together

c) do my late grandmother, great aunt and great uncle proud by sharing their incredible story

and d) get my head straight before I make my first trip to Burma (Myanmar) next year to see where it all began.

I hope you enjoy their story.

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