The friends of her youth were all more or less invalids now and were happier without her company.

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Deprived estates have twice as many unemployed and lone parents, and 50% more invalids than the national average.

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Invalidity Benefit, supposedly for invalids, had been paid to thousands of early retirees on the nod of friendly local doctors.

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Our sons come back to us like invalids.

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