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“COME listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed/ Found it really hard to keep a roof over his head/ Then one day he escaped from being poor/ When the lottery machine spat out six of his balls.”
Our first view of Jed and his family is in their loaded up van, time: 2am, driving off from working-class Netherley, where they have lived, to their new house in Formby bought from the proceeds of a massive lottery win. They all sing “live without a care, be a millionaire.”
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