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So Bernadette got to school age, and there was nothing. And I-- I remember my father fighting long and hard to get something for her to the extent-- and constantly getting rebuffed to the extent that when it came round to rates time, he went up to the town hall. And he put the money on the desk and said, there's my rates. And I've deducted the education bit because you won't educate my daughter. Eventually, Bernadette got into a training centre. And that was-- that was what was accepted then, and Bernadette loved that, and it was-- but it wasn't really preparing her for later life. It was, you know, keeping her occupied.