![]() She is wearing a red velvet dress with a square décolleté outlined with Venetian lace. ![]() Memories of myself at Serena's age recall a picture painted by Carolus Duran of a little girl against a tall red curtain. That we are both in America - she the child of my granddaughter Sarah Spencer-Churchill, who married an American, and I the wife of a Frenchman - is due to World War II, and to events little anticipated at the turn of the century when I left my native land. ![]() Watching my great-grandchild Serena Russell at play, so sure of herself, even at the age of three, I wonder if, when she reaches my age, she also will have forgotten events that now appear important to her. 1 The World of My Youth IN TRYING to recount events that have influenced my life, it is humiliating to find that I remember very little of my childhood. ![]()
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