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Mike McConaghy


September 1958 - innocence lost?

Mike McConaghy

"I suppose that day I lost some innocence, but it would not be very long before every boy and girl in the street knew the difference"

The Story

Mike and his mate were two schoolboys busy pinching apples from a private garden when the owner came out and caught them in the act. He was a big man and Mike felt terrified. Then the man asked him a question he didn't understand. It was not about apples...

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