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Orphanage And The RAF

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Similar to being in

in a big orphanage

and within that 300 kids,

of that, of that orphanage,

there was about 5 other kids

So there were very few of us.

And on the squadron that I joined,

there wasn't a single

I was the only one that was black.

Not that it made any difference,

it's just that I couldn't

If you put the two institutions

they had so many similarities.

You know, I had a bed to sleep in,

I had three meals a day

I had people above me who

You know, they were -

I'd gone from being

food rationing and so on

and suddenly I end up

there was any

And it was the same

so the similarities

you were left alone.

Nobody cared for you,

nobody gave you a cuddle,

unless you did something wrong,

then they didn't give you a kiss,

So, but that was the same

So those were the

that I just felt totally at home with.

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