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Jan 22, 20 reading call the midwife certainly put things into perspective and her descriptions of living situations in 1950s east end london sure make you appreciate our present day living. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read call the midwife. Worth describes in rich detail, midwives getting a call in the middle night and having to use a bicycle to attend patients. The last days of the east end midwives, and several more.
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