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SITTING here thinking, my mind goes back to 1984. What was I doing, what was going on?
I have always been involved in my community, a close-knit mining village on the north-east coast, Easington.
My mam and dad, good colliery folk, were not afraid of hard work, in fact, there weren’t many in our village who didn’t work.
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