<p>Thank goodness my 86-year old mother isn’t on CC - you’d be sorry you asked!</p>
<p>My parents were based in Cairo after the war because my late father was a diplomatic courier. Dad loved living abroad (they also lived in London and Paris) and told me several times he regretted ever returning to the states (at the goading of my mother, who wanted to come back to raise a family). As Mom has gotten on in years, her past travels are her Number One topic of conversation, and she’ll tell each and every person she meets - however briefly! - that she used to live there. Am sure it was quite different back then, as as she will be the first to tell you, very exciting and very exotic…</p>