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Ration books lasted a little longer until<br />
everything slowly recovered, and things became<br />
‘normal’ once more.<br />
April, now aged 14, was leaving school and<br />
growing up, she often was out with friends<br />
going to a main road which consisted of shops,<br />
a café and picture place. April, her friends and<br />
most young people termed this place ‘The<br />
Monkey Run’ although they didn’t quite know<br />
why. They would meet up in the cafés and chat<br />
whilst drinking warm drinks before they would<br />
buy some chips, which was always wrapped in<br />
newspaper. They would continue to chat some<br />
more for hours and then walk home.<br />
Some days they would all meet up and go to<br />
the pictures. They often met next to the clock<br />
for a chat. The boys used to pinch the girls head<br />
scarves teasingly for a promise of a kiss. When<br />
getting ready to go out the girls would rub sand<br />
on their legs to make them look tanned and<br />
smear soot to beneath their eyes to darken them.<br />
April’s friend helped her out with picking clothes<br />
for the dance; although much of the time her<br />
friends would borrow April clothes as she had<br />
so few. April and her friends they were similar<br />
sizes.
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