A Dance WIth Romeo

"My name is Mary Hymers and I was born in the year 1927. My Mother’s maiden name was Thomasina Gilfillan; after she married my Father Norman Hymers she took his surname and became Thomasina Hymers. I have one elder brother Alexander who was the oldest of us, then my sister Barbara, then me; Mary, and the baby of the family was my brother Norman..." With these words, at the age of 74 and never having written anything longer than a letter before, Mary Hymers began to write her life. Sixteen years