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beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green pallor, but the boy was sickly and died soon after the children were baptised. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct". After learning to speak
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The village contains one pub, The Bull, two tea rooms, estate agents, a grocers, hairdressers, a fish and chip shop, Palmers Bakery, a dentist and
Woolpit Interiors within the village and two industrial estates containing more larger businesses as well as a health surgery and school.
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that, "I was told there are still people in
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suggested they were "equal in beauty to stone". In 1818 he remarked that most of the mansions in
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