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Jennifer’s first memories start when she was three or perhaps four years old. She remembers falling from a tree and breaking her arm. She was playing in the big old house she lived in. She can also remember starting school when she was five. There was a little boy called Thomas in the same class. He used to pull her hair when the teacher wasn’t looking. One day she hit him over the head with a book and he began to cry. The teacher was very very angry with her. She remembers him saying, “Little girls don’t do things like that!” But Thomas never pulled her hair again. She didn’t have any siblings, but she had a happy childhood. She had a lot of friends. But she had to leave them all when she was eight. The company, her father worked for, sent him to the US. Of course, her mother and she had to go with him. At first, she didn’t like Chicago at all. The winters were terribly cold and the children at school there laughed at her ‘funny accent’. But after a while she got used to her new life and she began to enjoy it very much. She stayed in Chicago for six years. Then the company sent her father back to London and she had to get used to living in England all over again. She also had to think what she wanted to do later. She remembers a teacher asking them once what their ambitions were. She was sixteen at the time. Most of other girls in the class said they wanted to get married as soon as possible or to get jobs as secretaries. She doesn’t remember exactly what she said. But one thing was clear to her even then. She didn’t intend to be a housewife or a mother. And certainly, she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life in an office. She wanted some kind of career, but she didn’t know what it was. At the age of eighteen she left school and took a job for the summer in a tourist information office. It was hardly a career. But something happened there which changed her life.