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BRIGITTA CLAUDIA, 32

’ve been selling the magazine in Glasgow for more than five years now. I am originally from Romania but I came to the UK for a better life, that is most important for me. I came here with my two boys and my parents, but in the last year my father has had some problems, so he has stayed in

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