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1970s 2010s iPad Knowledge Snippets and Vignettes Visually Impaired

Thank You & Au Revoir Nick

A screenshot of a document
A screenshot of the Pages document on Trenna's iPad.

Letter by Tren, Intro and Background by Greg

First, Some Background

If you read The Kitchen Tapes series on this website you will find out a lot about Trenna, including that she experienced quite a lot of bullying at high school, primarily because she looked different to other people. Her thick, coke-bottle glasses didn’t help at all.

Then in 1974, when Trenna was 17 years of age, Optometrist Nick Humphry prescribed some rigid (hard) contact lenses and they transformed her … Read the rest ... “Thank You & Au Revoir Nick”

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1970s 1973 Diary GFS Snippets and Vignettes Writing

The 1973 Diary, Part 7

An abstract painting of two naked people kissing on the beach
So why are there two naked people canoodling near the beach at the start on this diary post? Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973. Given the time difference, possibly about the time Trenna was trying to extricate herself from the Fruitorium.

15 Year Old Trenna’s Own Words

This series of transcripts starts here.

1 April – 15 April 1973

Sunday 1 April  

I got up at 8.30 and had breakfast. Thank goodness I didn’t have a stomach ache this morning. We went to Janette’s Sunday School.  At first we all just sat in the hall and sang songs.  Then we all broke into classes but no one came to Mr Nelson’s class so only 2 of us were in his … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 7”