Dear Jennifer

Dear Jennifer...

Please take time to think about the future and your choices. You can’t be good at everything so be content with those things that you are good at.

Most of the people in the school are wealthy but the fact that you are there at the Grammer School shows that you are capable and successful without the advantages that they have had. You passed your exams to get there without any help.

If you want to be a doctor then be courageous and talk about it. Find someone who is interested and ask them how you can do it.

Stay on at school and face the exams and the snobbery. Don’t be ashamed of your worn shoes and tight clothes. One day you will be able to buy your own things and these uncomfortable times will be forgotten.

Be proud. Be patient. Be yourself.

Written to her 14 year old self by Jennifer, Hornsea u3a 

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