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In the Bottom of the Melting Pot

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As a teenager Sally Trench went to live among and care for the meths-drinkers on the London bombsites, the ultimate outcasts of the Welfare State. Eventually she left them to go to University and to marry; then she visited America and chose to spend her time there, too with the outcasts of the Great Society: the slum-dwellers of Harlem and the derelicts of Skid Row.
In this conversation with LESLIE SMITH she talks about her experiences

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Sally Trench
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Leslie Smith
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