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Michael name changed) was born in 1934 the younger of identical twins in Delhi in the area in Punjab (which means the land of Five Rivers(
in India. He has three older brothers and one older sister. As he and his brother are twins his mother and father didn't have to pay for everything
locally, as the tradesman refused payment because they believed twins graced their businesses and dwellings and brought good luck Michael
remembers that in Delhi there were scorpions and snakes, some of which were cobras, kraits (also known as twigsnakes), and black mambas. A
Krait s poison could kill a man within ten minutes while an indian myth says that if the blood of a mambo fell on you its mate would seek you out to
kill you
At the age of three, Michael's family had quite a few servants - a gardener, dhobi (washer woman), cook, bearer (who served the food), and a
manservant. The manservant hod to take Michael and his twin brother for walks, and as he was also the disciplinarian he made them hold their ears
and do squats as punishment

When Michael was four, the family transferred to the North West Frontier and as a treat visited the Khyber pass once a month They then moved to
Kabul, and later to Landi Katal, which has the highest railway station in the North West Frontier. He and his family then moved to Lahore when he
was five and then when he was eight they moved again this time to a hill station in the Himalayan Mountains There was no transport in this area
as snow used to reach a height of ten to twenty feet, so everyone had to walk. This included the bearer who had to walk the three miles down the
mountain to buy hand baked bread at a price of 0.625 pice (1 penny( and then walk back up again. Milk was bought at 1.25 pice ( 2 pence( and
was brought up from the volley by the village milkman or farmer at a distance of ten miles The milk was carried by yoke a shaped piece of wood to
fit on the shoulders with c bucket on either end and to ward of wild animals which included leopards panthers wolves bears hyenas and Jackals
the farmer would sing at the top of his voice.

Around this time, Michael discovered he had Psychic powers with his twin. They could tell when one another was in the vicinity, and whenever his
twin hurt himself he would get a headache, but it didn't occur vice-versa. Whenever Michael did get a headache, he would check up to see if his
twin was inbred. He invariably was.
While living in the Himalyas, Michael went to day school
until the age of fourteen where upon he went to boarding
school where he had to wear a blue and grey uniform.
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Cricket, Badminton, Basketball, Volley ball, Boxing,
Swimming and Gymnastics though Michaels favorite
pastime when he didn't have Iany lessons was Kite Flying.
Otherwise boarding School was uneventful, except for the Win with Youthquake I
dap fights and pi)e.on', Wth dap fights, a look out was
Science fiction, fantasy or a true life event, to
posted in the hell way outside a dormitory, while two teams,
consisting f about eight people in each, used to through whatever the case we want you to write a story
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there PE daps at eah other sometimes pillow got involved! now, so put pen to paper and enter Youthquake's
first competition. (No more than 300 words).
The only way people walking in the Dormitory didn't get hit,
Your story will be published in our next edition
was by saying the word Pox'. Pile on was as equally as
and runners up will receive goody bags from
dangerous. TwoIlearnsi with twelve boys in each, would
Virgin Cinemas and the winner as well as seeing
alternately form chains, with the strongest or tallest boys at
their story published in the magazine, will receive
one end, leading to the shortest weakest at the other. The
a gift voucher from Dominos Pizza.
other team had to break the links of the chain and it was
yssrftjc,ding Good luck and start writing today
usuollr the weakest t myself, Michael(
who estded
regndernath all the others!
Miche 1954 at the age of twenty, WORD ON THE STREET
movirsg stroig 4on, and took up an
Animal Testing
engineering/Ms -. reer which he has followed
ever since W. i'dme to Swindon, there was
We asked four people, 14-18 years old, about animal testing, what
hardly anythfn' çr the Railway works, Railway they thought about it and whether they check products (cosmetics)
villager an overel - ash ( raincoat) manufacturer, before they buy them. A young woman totally disagreed with the
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and WD and "rrtte factory where Tesco, on whole issue of animal testing, whenasked why animals should suffer
Ocotol Way, stan& me~ cigarettes were two when experiments went wrong, she said that she checked every
shillings (10 penendoys money),. unsliced bread was product before buying. Another young person said that they thought
ten penee f pence today), Milk was 'ive pence (1 and a it was a cruel thing to do, not fair, and that animals don't do it to
humans do they? but he didn't always check products he bought.
half pnaei od eggs were tuppence - farthing each (less
Most of the young people we spoke to said similar things.
tere . dozen
than .
SIiH Iitif iSwindon Michael é'noys such activities such as Young people take action
Hockey lasming, FootheI I I, DIY, Walking, stamp
We attended a meeting at the Link Youth Unit where a large group
coIlecb
of young people are about to start a campaign to open a 'Drop in'
facility at the Link Centre Youth Unit. They are fed up with having
Whe&5osfed Oout taàrt Michael replied " I would
nowhere to go, and and when they do find somewhere to chat, more
say app roximotely 80% are ekdy, but sadly the other 20%, S
often than not they get moved on. Also this situation often results in
mainly corisisling of conflict with the Link Centre staff and security guards. The action
n,g teenagers get into too much
trouble and are the down fall of modern British society' decided upon was to start a petition and gather support from other it I
young people and adults in the community.
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