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“By the 90s, we'd got sniffy about sending infants over two lanes of moving traffic to fetch sliced Hovis. It has, I think, something to do with health and safety. Such errands wound up back in the hands of the adults.” quote by Grace Dent — Download Open image

“By the 90s, we'd got sniffy about sending infants over two lanes of moving traffic to fetch sliced Hovis. It has, I think, something to do with health and safety. Such errands wound up back in the hands of the adults.”

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