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They would do that on all the roads. As children without shoes, we had
to walk on them. Life was very hard.

I remember when a war started somewhere. We lived in fear every day.
We always heard what they called "great guns" going off at a place

called Sandy Gully—day after day.

The first time we saw a plane overhead, we all took off and hid. My
father said we were to run into the garden so that if they bombed the

house, we would be safe. And we believed him. (Stupid idiot.) The war
wasn’t even fought in our country—there was just some training going

on at that place called Sandy Gully.

There was nothing to buy at the few shops we had. We lived in the dark;
we couldn’t light a lamp at all. This seemed to go on forever

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