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"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone line..." — John McGahern
For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
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