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From school I put in for a thrift form. I was given a corduroy suit and a pair of boots, and I came home so proud of that suit. But when my father came home in the evening and saw it, he asked, ‘Where d'you get that from?’ ‘From school,’ I said. ‘I signed the thrift form.’ ‘You can take it back.’ Charity he wouldn't have. We had literally nothing to eat, but charity he wouldn't have.