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When I Go reading from the story from journeys of i This story is set in north Belfast in the 1950s, when the world was still recovering from the second world war. It is about the transition from that post-war time to a new time, a time of american influence, when it seemed as if the sun remembered to shine again. My brother and I shared a bedroom, and we had a blackout blind at the window, literally a black blind designed to keep light from escaping during an air raid, still there after the war.

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