Lizzie had three children, two boys aged seven and six and a three year old daughter.  Her husband worked in a grocery shop in Main Street owned by his brother.  It was the early 50’s and things were tight.  They thought themselves lucky that they had a roof over their head and food on the table. Lizzie was very careful with her husband’s small wages.  They lived in a two bedroom house. The children slept in the bigger bedroom.  The house had an outside toilet, which was not unusual those days. Once a week a tin bath, kept in the shed, was brought in to the kitchen to give the children a good scrub and wash their hair.  They were like new pins every Saturday night as they sat around the fire. Lizzie and Andrew often looked at each other and smiled as they watched their shiny little heads and smiling faces.  They thought they were truly blessed.

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