Brought a lump to the throat .

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Someone  gave me  Michael Caine's biography  at Christmas  ,  not my usual reading TBH   , name dropping etc ,   but one bit brought a lump to the throat  .  His father , a Billingsgate fish market labourer  ,  was in hospital , dying  in some agony , Caine asked the Doc to give him an overdose .   The Doc just said  "Why don't you come back  later tonight "   When he did  his Dad whispered " Good luck son "     & passed on .       Caine  found later that after a lifetimes  hard labour on the market   his Dad had  3 /-8 d    (3 shillings & eightpence)   old money to his name  .      ( Approx.  28 pence  Metric) 

He swore that he & his family would never remain poor .  

 
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