
Living through the fall of communism
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I Had a Normal Childhood
In many ways, to me, it seems now like a normal childhood. And i also remember it as a happy childhood, actual, in many ways. A books, for example, would only come up in the bookshop every now and then. There wasan unlimited supplies of books for children. Libraries were very important. You'uld go to the library all the time, because that's where yououd find also, all the books that had been in the shops before and had run out. The access to goods was marked by shortages. We used to swap chewing gum wrappers. That's how we played with children, because we didn't have actually chewing gum. We didn't have
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