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I was a child during the war.
I remember the food and shortage of food.
It was 7 coupons for mens shoes and 5 coupons for ladies shoes.
It was just ordinary food — dried egg and dried milk.
We had sweets, we had coupons and you cashed them in for sweets.
You had to queue for everything.
My father was a miner during the war.
Where I lived there wasn't any shelter.
If there was a siren we would go down the cellar.
We had an ordinary street party when war ended — there was lots of food going around.

I used to play football with the boys at school.
I wore knee boots and had to go to the clinic every week, but because of my boots the boys would have me on their side!

We took our lunch — mainly cheese, occasionally marmalade, to school.

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