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We felt safe and loved, there wasn’t any fear except for about the enemy and yet you didn’t know why you feared them as a child.
And then peace came and oh my goodness, did we have a ball. It was like colour came back, we had coloured shoes and clothes, I was a teenager by then and it was fabulous. Dancehalls opened, lights came on. I think a child that went through the war did grow up with a sense of feeling responsible. You didn’t get into trouble and problems — even once the children grew up they didn’t. Because they learned values and morals during the war. They felt very lucky to have got through it safely.

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