How Did Your Grandparents Put You Toboarding School?

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Your grandparents put up the money to send you to boarding school. It is one of those things that baffles non brits, the sending away of very little children to boardingSchool. I think it's a dreadful, a dreadful tradition. And because i was disleksic, tried to surround myself with people who were better than me, who could compensate for my weaknesses. The positive thing about that was decided to start getting interested in things that were not conventional school work. and so yo, aged an 14, 15, i decided to start a magazine for young people. And and a to to address some of these issues.

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