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Does Lord Alan strike you as the sort of person to claim walking 10 miles to school |
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Does Lord Alan strike you as the sort of person to claim walking 10 miles to school
uphill both ways ..... and it was always raining. Oh and the Luftwaffe were still bombing along his route. But he still managed to sell asparagus to the local farmers.
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Not really.
He bangs on about certain things but I don't think he's wildly exaggerating. |
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His family couldn't afford shoes, so he had to walk barefoot. The road was also paven with broken glass.
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His family couldn't afford shoes, so he had to walk barefoot. The road was also paven with broken glass.
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Sugar grew up in Hackney (inner city London) - there were probably 10 primary schools and two secondary schools within 15 minutes walk!
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And he had to carry an elephant the whole way. And back.
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And he had to carry an elephant the whole way. And back.
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His mum and dad both spoke only in Vietnamese so he had to learn the language...and fast!
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uphill both ways ..... and it was always raining. Oh and the Luftwaffe were still bombing along his route. But he still managed to sell asparagus to the local farmers.
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Im getting a bit tired with the whole "I has nothing, now I have everything" week in week out aswell :sleep:
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