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It had been decided by my father that the safest place was underneath the stairs, in the stair cupboard, so the stair cupboard being rather small, and the shape of the stair cupboard, you can guess where I was, right down in the bottom corner, with my mother and my father sort of jammed into this cupboard and my father holding the door while we could hear the drone of planes and the bombs. And of course my great worry at five years old was the fact that I wanted my gas mask on, because I鈥檇 been given this and as far as I knew this was the saviour. And I wore my gas mask and sweated through this, and I was so concerned because my parents didn鈥檛 put their gas masks on. And I suppose as a child you worry that something鈥檚 going to happen to them and I鈥檓 going to be left on my own. I didn鈥檛 understand the ramifications of not wearing a gas mask. Anyway, eventually the air raid ended, and I came out sweating and absolutely distraught, but pleased that it was all over.
BRIAN LE CONTE

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