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God redeemed my lack of education
Born in the early 1970s, I grew up in an era of people of my family’s social standing not being encouraged to strive for university. That was saved for the elite, those who were intelligent enough to pass the 11-plus exam and go to grammar school. Against the odds, my eldest stepsister, who was ten years older than me, did actually go to grammar school. One day I returned home from school to find her crying at the kitchen table in complete devastation. She hadn’t received the grades required from her O-level exams to be considered for university. If I had harboured any hope of going to university, it died in that moment. If my stepsister, the most intellectual of seven of us, couldn’t make it, there was no hope for any of us. The best that I could hope for was an office job or a job in retail.
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