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Tindle News
  • 07/02/2025
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00:00My mother, Sioned, bent, cleaned and worked 18 hours a day in three jobs to keep us from the workhouse.
00:08She died, Dean Tull's voice broke.
00:11She died in poverty when I was 13, killed cleaning filth in the great English houses.
00:17Killed by the diseases brought by the rats that shared our hovel.
00:20Killed by having to drink foul water as we had no tap.
00:24Killed by the doctors who held out their hands for silver when we had none.

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