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At the present moment Helen Cusker is 73 years old. She came
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At the present moment Helen Cusker is 73 years old. She came into the world in her mother's kitchen floor on the 5th January 1931. In those days children were rarely born in a hospital as home births were very common. A neighbour stepped in and acted as a midwife to deliver the baby. It was a long and painful labour which lasted seventy-two hours. From the day Helen was born, she stayed in Yorkhill, a small area near Partick in Glasgow's west end. Admittedly it was not the best area to grow up in but there was a real sense of friendship and reliability within her small community. The street Helen grew up in was the only Street in the area with cobbles on the road. Unfortunately no houses stand there any more as it is now part of the Yorkhill fire station now. The original buildings were demolished...
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