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He remembered better the rackety , uneasy circumstances of the time : the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations , the piles of rubble everywhere , the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners , the gangs of youths in shirts all the same colour , the enormous queues outside the bakeries , the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance - above all , the fact that there was never enough to eat . gold

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