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In any time that he could accurately remember , there had never been quite enough to eat , one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes , furniture had always been battered and rickety , rooms underheated , tube trains crowded , houses falling to pieces , bread dark-coloured , tea a rarity , coffee filthy-tasting , cigarettes insufficient - nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin . gold
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