Summary
ON BOXING Day 1989, Babe Dunnet and her family were slumped in front of the television after lunch when the news came on. Kate Adie, the BBC's chief news correspondent, was reporting on the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania (Adie particularly remembers that day; it was unusual to be doing such a story at Christmas time).
Adie was just a woman on telly to the Dunnets, but Babe's grandson turned to the family and said, "Doesn't Kate Adie look like Grandma!" And she did. Remarkably so.See the full content of this document
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In the Line of Fire
Babe Dunnet thought no more about her grandson's comment. She is not a woman who lets her imagination run wild. Just like Adie. The journalist's conversation is neat, clipped, precise as a marksman's bullet. "I don't go around imagining," she says sternly. "I'm not that sort of person. I let things happen and I see what they are like."
People imagine about her though. They assume that, because she was adopted, she must be full of trauma. "You're meant to have a terrible childhood, be full of angst, and then go off to a war zone and have a cathartic moment. 'Fraid not. I had a happy childhoo...See the full content of this document
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