The Backstory
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The University of Saint Andrew's
In the 19 eighties, where i grew up, everybody worked in nationalized industry. My dad went from being a coal miner and a british coal to being a hospital porter on the lower wrong of the economic ladder. The only reason i got to go to saint andrews because my local education authority, county durham, paid for me to get that education. And then i went to harvard because i got scholarship. I did what i did because of massive amounts of support, either from the local education authority or later, from grants and fellawships. Thare was support network. You can't always take an opportunity because you don't have the means to do
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