As a young child, I spent some of my idle time ransacking my parents’ wardrobes, closets, and bags. I was particularly fascinated by the peppermints that I always found in my mother’s purses and the biros and pens of various colours that both my parents kept. I become a major collector of those items and showed-off my prized possessions to my friends at school each week.

On one of those my “hunting” expeditions I came across my father’s pay-slip. He was at that time perhaps an Assistant or Deputy Director at the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology. I was greatly disturbed by what I found – his take home pay just didn’t add up. I doubled the amount (assuming about the same income for my mother), and it became clear that having five children, providing us all with education, food and a living must have been very tough for my parents in the 1980s and 1990s.
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