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This story has been transcribed and published by Mark Jeffers, with permission from the author.

One day my cousin, who was only a few years older than me, made me laugh. My Aunt Gerdy, who was a very big woman, and her family used to go up to the shelter at the nursery school at the top of Utility Street [Belfast] during an air raid. The siren went off this day and my Aunt was taking a long time inside the house. My cousin Bobby was shouting at her 鈥淢other, for goodness sake would you hurry up!鈥� She was so big she couldn鈥檛 really rush. She says 鈥淔or God鈥檚 sake Bobby would you hold on, I鈥檓 looking for my false teeth鈥�. 鈥淢other,鈥� he says, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not bread they鈥檙e dropping, its bombs!鈥�

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