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living under occupation - shoe shortage

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DAPHNE BRETON
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Guernsey
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Civilian
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A4013993
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06 May 2005

I only had one pair of wooden clogs because my mother wouldn’t put me in those wooden shoes, so she used to barter to buy ‘Startrite’ shoes. I only had one pair, at the very end of the occupation, navy blue they were. But I didn’t grow for five years, so I wore the same things.
DAPHNE BRETON

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