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When the war first started I was only 3 years old but I can still remember my mum going to the market on a Saturday evening. In those days we didn't have refrigerators so food had to be eaten or spoiled. Throwing away food was never even considered so on Saturday nights, food was sold off cheaply as we knew we had to make a meal out of anything. Because food was so short during the war, if ever my mun saw a queue she joined it, sometimes not even knowing what she was in the queue for. She would say to us that she could have been "queuing for a banana or a vicoty-v".

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