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THIS IS MY STORY

It happened at school. That moment when you start to think about what you may want to do when you grow up. But pupils like me, at a school like mine, didn’t normally aspire to university.

I didn’t come from the right background.

Growing up on the Wester Hailes housing estate in Edinburgh in a family that worked as coopers and slaughtermen, I have memories of my uncle arriving home from work with the pungent smell of neat whisky emanating from his overalls.

It’s little wonder I can’t touch the stuff now.

But I always remember the moment. Walking along the window-lined corridor at school, smelling the chlorine from the community swimming pool below, I bumped into the Assistant Head.

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I always liked him. A really kind and welcoming character who seemed to hold the respect of all the students in the school.

“How do you fancy the university summer school? I could get you a place that’ll open up university for you”.

I said yes before he finished his sentence.

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