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John Sergeant

ne of the happiest times of my life and my best holiday experience came in my ‘gap year’. I was 18 and had got into Oxford, and I worked as a filing clerk to save enough money to go to America for seven months. In those days, the cheapest way was to cross the Atlantic on one of the famous ocean liners. I travelled both ways on the old, and

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