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I was beginning to make my entrance to the world during the London blitz on 7th September 1940, finally arriving on the 8th. The nursing home was bombed that night along with our home because the docks were close by. My mother did not have a comfortable confinement having been forced to give birth on a mattress under a bed with no electricity or water supplies. Recuperation took place in an air raid shelter in my aunt鈥檚 Essex garden. What an explosive way to enter this world!

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