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It was difficult to keep a family on rations, but if you knew the butcher he would keep you offal or hearts, under the counter sort of things. We were allowed one egg, a quarter of margarine, and half a pound of sugar and as the war went on, so it got less. We used to get 1/6 worth of meat when it first started, then it went right down to eight-pence, that was in old money.

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