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AUDIO text>Leaving

My father was already here, and I don't remember seeing him at all in India. And...so me and my mother came in 1965, the middle of 1965 some time. All I remember is my mum saying that we're going somewhere to join your dad, and she...obviously she must have mentioned England, but it just seemed like another place to me, because I was taken all over like I say. And so I presumed, you know, it was just another place in India. I never knew anything existed outside India at that time, and all I knew was just one big piece of land, so I thought, "Oh yes, we might go somewhere else today", you know, I didn't realise it was going to be such a long distance."

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