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When food was rationed, peole always wanted more. Sometimes, small shops would get meat or other rationed foods in. Normally, they restricted them to 1 or 2 per person. If you had to wait at the back of the queue, you sometimes didn't get anything as they may have run out. If they had plenty, you could go round the queue twice! One day, the buthers around the corner had got in Pork Pies, and were allowing each person as many as they wanted. I didn't have enough money with me to buy the right amount of pies. I told the woman in the queue in front of me, a neighbour named Mrs Vincent. She kindly loaned me the money, as long as I promised to bring the money round to her later. I took the pies home and my mother enquired as to how i'd managed to buy so many pies. I told her, and she gave me the money to take round to Mrs Vincent. We all had pies for tea that night!

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