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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly hav

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, its not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. – John le Carre

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