The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

"If you were pregnant, you weren‘t allowed to sail after a cerâ€" tain month," said Pilkington. In February 1944, Pilkington decided to return to Medicine Hat to have her baby. She bought her ticket for her trip home and within days received a call from Ottawa offering her a pasâ€" sage to England. "There was no way I was going to turn that down," she said, "despite the fact that I was six months pregnant at the time." SISTER ALSO CALLED Then a wonderful thing hapâ€" pened. Although Nan was placed on the list a few months later than her sister, she also received a call, the same day, offering her a place on a boat. The sisters took a train to Halifax, as soon as they could leave, to meet their boat. "I was terrified they were going to send me back as soon as they saw I was pregnant," said Pilkington, "so my sister and I switched fur coats â€" her‘s was a little looser â€" so they wouldn‘t notice." A fellow passenger on the boat was a friend of Nan‘s, Phil, another Canadian wife of a RAF pilot going to join her husband. This is where Pilkington‘s book begins as it chronicles the lives of the three Canadian women. Soon, the three were crossing the 3070 MAINWAY DRIVE (at Guelph Line) UNIT #2 NEGC BURLINGTON, ONTARIO L7M 1Â¥1 Tel.: (416) 332â€"3343 Fax: (416) 332â€"8145 ALR COMPUTERS â€" SOFTWARE â€" SALES â€" SERVICE More bothersome were the torpeâ€" does. The convoy came under fire and six ships were sunk. They sailed for 17 days â€" via the Azores â€" and on March 14th, 1944, on Pilkington‘s 21st birthday, they docked in Liverpool. BLACKOUT "We had been told that our husâ€" bands knew we were coming and would meet us," said Pilkington, "but no one met us." "There was a blackout and we didn‘t know where to go and what to do, so they dumped us at the railâ€" way station with all of our lugâ€" gage." _ Finally, a "bobby" helped the women find a hotel room where is the use of essential oils their odour to help aid relaxation, assist in the healing process and to alleviate stress through body massage. Certified Aromatherapy Alexandria Body Sugaring ® e of essential oils their . _ Relaxing 45 minute foot massage _ ) help aid relaxation, assist _ * Relieves Stress Tension aling process and to o lrnfroves circulation : stress through body * Relaxes and rejuvenates the body 6. * $25 per session/45 min. Get rid of unwanted hair the ancient Egyptian way. Alexandria Body Sugaring is 100% natural. Julie Jones BUBBLE JET/SHEETFEEDER 24 PIN WITH COLOUR KIT $350 Pilkington finally found her husâ€" band who was posted in Scotland. She went to live with her mothâ€" erâ€"inâ€"law, but left eventually and joined Nan and Phil. Her baby girl was born in May 1943 and nine weeks later, her husâ€" band finally got leave to see his daughter. Adams died when his plane went down in the North Sea while on a mission that July. "That was the only time he saw her," said Pilkington. Pilkington, at Nan‘s urging, remained in England. She later met her present husâ€" band Harry, who was Nan‘s husâ€" band‘s navigator. She closes her story heie. Certified Reflexology Alexandria Body Sugaring ® Pilkington says she tried to write this story as fiction originally, but her publishers â€" General Store Publishing â€" encouraged her to make it a personal story. She spent a whole year trying to rewrite the story, but in the end, both she and the publishers realized a nonâ€"fiction version would not work. . _ TOSHIBA could make it fiction," she said. FOOTNOTES As a footnote, Nan returned to Canada with her husband and lives in the same building as Pilkington in Oakville. "The story seemed more real if I Phil remained in England, and PANASONIC KXP2123 e AMicrosoft. accrac $995 AR PARTS AND LABOUR 2 MB MEMORY 1.44 MB AND 1.2 MB 130 MB HARD DRIVE SVGA 14" COLOUR MONITOR 512 K VIDEO CARD 101 KEYBOARD AR PARTS AND LABOUR WARRANTY In between the 23 house moves her family made because of Harry‘s career, she received a bachelor‘s degree in English from Sir George Williams University; a master‘s degree in Education Administration from McGill University; and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. returns next week (open 7 days a week)