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Between Freezing And Starving
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When I arrived at university I began to notice something strange about my Fellow students.They didn't seem worry about how much they spent.One of my house mates spent 100 of pounds on a trip to the NIKE Shop.He looked stupid in his Corporate Logo beige clothes and giant trainers ,of course, but it did start a line of enquiry that lead to revelation. The people that didn't run of of food or money and had parents with cars to pick them up at the end of term were not actually like me.They didn't grow up in poverty with carefully rationed food and little to no heat.They were well off and I was not. When I was a child I assumed everyone was in the same position. Those people on TV may have had more but TV was bollocks everyone knew that. No at university had the "we've run out of electricity and now must sit in darkness" childhood stories.No one else had "hiding from the engineer knocking at our front door to cut off our gas supply for non payment" stor...