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I slept at the top of the house and one night during an air raid I was listening to bits and pieces falling down onto the roof. My mother asked me to come downstairs. I came halfway and was sitting on the edge of the staircase when a bomb dropped and the windows came in on one side and she jumped out of bed on the other side. My father yelled 鈥淐ome downstairs!鈥�, we both dashed downstairs. We had an old fashioned swing bell which was ringing and my mother said 鈥渟omebody wants to come in鈥�. 鈥淐ome in鈥� said my father as he opened the front door just as a second bomb dropped and he was blown right along the hall, much to our surprise and laughter.

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