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I was a toddler when the war started, but I can remember a boy of about nine years of age coming to stay at our house. He had a strange accent and my older sister who was also nine years old had to look after him because my mum was out working towards the war effort. We lived in a very close-knit community.
I can remember my mum saying that the boy had got nits! The boy ended up staying with us throughout the war.
I now realise the boy would have been an evacuee from London.
The strangest thing of all is that I became a nurse after I left school and the last job I had was as a community school nurse and one of my duties was to look for head lice!

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