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When I was about six or seven, we used to have the Germans working mending the roads and my mother made a great big plate of sandwiches and a great big jug of drinking chocolate and she had me take it to them. I was a bit shy but they thanked me. She was a very caring person, my mother, like I am a caring person. She said 鈥淭hey are some mothers鈥� lads after all and I鈥檓 sure their mothers would do the same鈥�. She even bought them some cigarettes one time.

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