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2008-11-22

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Gorgeous, and without a single apparent tattoo or piercing. Could today's young women take note of the example???

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-11-22 00:09|| 2008-11-22 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Could today's young women take note of the example???

Uh - prolly not...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-11-22 01:36|| 2008-11-22 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Is she bathe?

Posted by .5MT 2008-11-22 07:46|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-22 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Cause ifn she did, that would be loverly.

Posted by .5MT 2008-11-22 07:47|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-22 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I dunno. Sweaty is nice sometimes.

Posted by gorb 2008-11-22 10:01|| 2008-11-22 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like she might be trying to adjust something.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-11-22 10:34|| 2008-11-22 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 In 1935, her parents divorced and her father, a Nazi sympathizer,[5] left the family.[6] (Both parents were members of the British Union of Fascists in the mid-1930s according to Unity Mitford, a friend of Ella van Heemstra and a follower of Adolf Hitler.)[7]

She later called her father's abandonment the most traumatic moment of her life. Years later, she located him in Dublin through the Red Cross. Although he remained emotionally detached, she stayed in contact with him and supported him financially until his death.[8]

In 1939, her mother moved her and her two half-brothers to their grandfather's home in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Ella believed the Netherlands would be safe from German attack. Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945, where she trained in ballet along with the standard school curriculum. In 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation, Hepburn adopted the pseudonym Edda van Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents because an 'English sounding' name was considered dangerous. This was never her legal name. The name Edda was a version of her mother's name Ella.[9]

By 1944, Hepburn had become a proficient ballerina. She secretly danced for groups of people to collect money for the Dutch resistance. She later said, "the best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance."[10] After the Allied landing on D-Day, living conditions grew worse, and Arnhem was subsequently devastated by Allied artillery fire that was part of Operation Market Garden. During the Dutch famine that followed, over the winter of 1944, the Germans confiscated the Dutch people's limited food and fuel supply for themselves. People starved and froze to death in the streets. Hepburn and many others resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits.[5][11]

Hepburn's uncle and her mother's cousin were shot in front of Hepburn for being part of the Resistance. Hepburn's half-brother Ian van Ufford spent time in a German labour camp. Suffering from malnutrition, Hepburn developed acute anemia, respiratory problems, and oedema.[12] In 1991, Hepburn said "I have memories. More than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on to the train. I was a child observing a child."

Posted by 3dc 2008-11-22 11:00|| 2008-11-22 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I just noticed that she has a really skinny neck. Just like me. Wonder if we're related?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-22 11:56|| 2008-11-22 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 The Dutch called it The Hunger Winter, 3dc. Mama doesn't speak much about it. The edema is a common symptom of severe hunger; the body starts consuming itself. We've all seen pictures of starving African children with stick arms and legs and swollen bellies.

Miss Hepburn ha a swan-like neck, Richard dear. It's considered terribly elegant, so congratulation to you. ;-)

Abu Uluque, Miss Hepburn is putting on a coat with a dyed-to-match Persian lamb collar... unless the entire coat is Persian lamb, I can't tell from the picture.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-11-22 16:57|| 2008-11-22 16:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Eat something, Audrey.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-11-22 19:17|| 2008-11-22 19:17|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd love to buy her Breakfast at Tiffany's!

(And Holland during WWII was no joke. Knew a family where the dad left for USA and wouldn't go back due to PTSD.)

Posted by JDB 2008-11-22 20:23|| 2008-11-22 20:23|| Front Page Top

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