She was twelve years old. And she had been awake all night pondering her future.
Ever since she was a very little girl, friends of her daddy used to pick her up on their laps—and say:
"And what are you going to be when you grow up?" Her answer was always the same.
"I’m going to be a mother when I grow up." "And that’s all?" "That's all." But the night before she wondered whether that was all she wanted to be -- really.
For Hayley, the baby daughter of top British star John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell Mills had grown up in a world that was a mixture of the brightest literary and theatrical circles -- and the quietness and quaintness of the old English countryside.
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