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I was born during the war and lived on Jamaica. I remember being told you couldn’t lights the lamps in the house we had to put wicks down a tin and use those as lamps. I remember that you couldn’t get soap and we used a bush which foamed up and cleaned our clothes with the leaves and buds off that bush and everyone called it the soap bush.

The main thing I remember being told about was the hardship and the things we couldn’t get and my mother saying we had to use things on Jamaica like coconut oil. I heard about the British forces being in Kingston trying to recruit men to go off and fight. I also remember everyone rejoicing that the war was over.

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