# A second 'illegitimate

By [3ece68](https://paragraph.com/@3ece68) · 2022-05-15

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"' child, born into a two-bedroom terraced house with seven - sometimes eight - occupants was one too many," Steve says.

At the time he and his mother were living with Dorothy's parents and three or four of her siblings. Steve's grandmother was a cleaner, while his grandfather stoked boilers at a carpet mill. Dorothy didn't have a job and they just couldn't afford another mouth to feed.

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