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Lesley Ure – Wanted children to have stability in one location

Lesley Ure – Try not to set your expectations too high | Lesley Ure – Wishing away my twenties
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I decided to you know, not follow Midge around in his career, I wanted my children to have the stability of living in one area and having their family around and having those consistent friendships which is really important to me, so I pretty much was a single parent because even if he was home, or wasn’t serving at sea, he was working and you know that would be in Faslane and then later in Plymouth so you know very rarely at home, so I just, I chose a bit of a different life really and I suppose again with us not living in Armed Forces accommodation, I was quite detached almost.

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Lesley Ure portrait by Julian Winslow for Submariners' Stories Oral History project
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