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Is there a war on?

I was born in Canada but I whilst I was in the Canadian RAF, I met a handsome Englishman, who was in the RAF, and married him.
We moved to Bermuda and then, when I became pregnant, my husband persuaded me to move to England.
We moved to be with his parents in the almshouses in Sutton Cheney, a small village in Leicestershire. The almshouses were very old and run by a local charity. They were to house older people, but we lived with his parents there for a while. It was a big shock for me, as I was used to central heating and inside toilets in Canada, for there was no running water, and all water had to be fetched from a pump in a yard, which was where the outside toilet was too.
The war didn鈥檛 affect us in our sleepy village as much as affected those people who lived in big cities and who had to live with the fear of bombing every night.
Food was short, but we managed and made sure that the grandma in the family never went without.
In fact, I think grandma was so protected by us that she didn鈥檛 even realise that there was a war on!

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