The original Kim {Rudyard K's] was no girlie, Steve. Another thing the fair sex have nicked! My cousin Richard was married to a female Kim.

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True drifty story. There was a book-launch of a new book on Ruddy at Heffers in Cambridge a while back, and we were all told to come as a Kipling character. I borrowed a solar-topi and put on khaki trousers & went as District-Commissioner Wotsit Sahib. I met my cousins there. "Why aren't you in costume?" I asked her. "I'm Kim," she replied.