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the paper garlands painting them rblue this year or the men fighting in th

helped Mother with the baking. And n

waiting, waiting, waiting. At least the and I can hear carols. I listen out or t

be singing with the Chapel choir ton

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I can smell just-baked cake and a piedown, I can see the cake as it sits coolin

tray. Te pie Fathers Special Christmas

still in the oven, but in my mind I can stop and hear the sizzling meat stewing in

ake the mixing bowl into the kitche

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are being separated rom their amiliremember where we live, what our athe

who is in our amily. As I head to the sin

the words that I had said to the teacherMy name is Dot, Im five and a lot, my

mines the coal. I have two brothers, Jac

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rom round here, she grew up in Londotold me, when she had had a fight with A

she wished shed never lef civilisation.

he green velvety curtain, which hbetween our kitchen and the housep

outward. Its Jack, my big brother, comin

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currants or the sultanas. Te woman Rompton said she had to ration them, th

rationed them to I dont know. She didn

Ive put what ruit I did get in the puddShe nods towards the double pan th

the side o the fire, steam rising.

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Do you think well still be carol sinsnow? Jack asks as he peels off his coat a

throws them over the corduroy cushion

chair. I wonder how he thinks he will gthat. Every day when Father returns r

wheels his bicycle through the kitchen

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go and stop him climbing out o the prthis sago pudding out o the oven.

Bob throws his short, at arms aroun

his hands in my hair. Dodo, Dodo, he mall sof and warm. I lif him out hes a

hes three and set him down. He todd

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parts o mysel washed in the cold wateneed to talk to Jack.

All good or later? I ask. Whos in?

Ive been waiting or tonight too. Firsare going around the village, carol sing

Chapel choir, and aferwards we are go

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a no-good girl sissy. George, his youwho is now in the Juniors, thinks he kno

and cant stop telling us about the war;

the lookout or Germans. Mike is the band we need him along tonight i we

any money. Besides, his mother thinks

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cooking in the oven or a long time as it gcreamy and slides down easily. As Moth

each a bowl, or a time all that can be hear

o spoons as they clatter on the dishes. Tare always hungry.

Te gaslight has not yet been lit and

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Just you look afer your sister, Jack. D

stay with Jack. With a last pull o my sc

opens the back door and we are released