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I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
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Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
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I’m still working on it.
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That I’m still here.
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I am a pretty good dog mum.
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