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And that's all I'm really after.

I don't want no more

or less than that.

Ohh.

Unlucky Tony.

Unlucky.

Some people from Africa come here,

but they - when they go,

they put their clothes on.

Jackie, Lynn and Sue

all grew up in the

East End of London

and were friends in

the same junior school.

With this school, we do

metalwork and woodwork,

and the boys do cookery.

We had a teacher at school

that his favourite ploy was,

"All you girls want

to do is walk out,

get married, have babies

and push a pram

down the street

with a fag hanging

outside your mouth."

I think that we

all could have gone

any way that we wanted

to at the time

within our capabilities,

I mean, we just -

we chose our own jobs.

But we only had a

limited choice anyway.

I mean, truth be told, we didn't

have a choice of private education,

because they couldn't

have afforded it anyway.

Change is too much, Mike.

Our lives are changing

far too much, all of us.

To be honest, when you look

at the seven-year-old us,

it's difficult

to believe it is us.

I mean, it's like it's someone

else you're looking at,

this little cute thing.

I mean, I can't remember being...

Well, I wasn't cute.

I would like to get married

when I grow up.

Well, I don't know

what sort of boy,

but I think one that...

That's not got a lot of money

but he has got some money,

not a lot.

(Michael) Have you got

any boyfriends?

Um...

Um...

That's personal, innit?

By the time she was 21,

Jackie had married Mick

and moved to the

outskirts of London.

It was horrific, really, what

happened to the wedding cake.

I mean, it was sitting right

in between Mick and myself

when suddenly the columns

just completely gave way

and it just all

sort of fell into one.

I would say on average,

19 is probably too young.

By 35 she was divorced.

We decided ourselves, I mean

just between the two of us,

we knew it wasn't

going any further.

We both knew, I think,

that at the end of the day,

we would be happier

leading our own lives.

...Jackie.

She and Mick had decided early on

that they didn't want children.

Basically I would say

because I'm far too selfish.

I enjoy doing what I want

when I want and how I want,

and certainly at the moment

I can't see any way around that.

Oh, and... This one on.

Here we go. Oh, yeah.

Had a brief but very

sweet relationship,

the result of which was Charlie.

Give us a cuddle.

I don't really want

Charlie to be an only.

I'd love him to have

brothers and sisters,

but not necessarily loads of 'em.

Just, you know -

one would do, actually.

Right, Charlie.

There's yours.

Please eat it all up.

And James.

Thanks, mum.

Good boy.

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