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If Mum and Dad hadn’t won the lottery, I would never have gone to boarding school.

If Gran hadn’t given me her collection of Enid Blyton books, I would never even have thought of going to boarding school.

And if I hadn’t caught the chicken pox from my dear little sister, I wouldn’t have started a week late; and if I hadn’t started a week late I might not have got tied up with Rachel and her problems.

Not that I realised straight away that Rachel had any problems. That came later. When we first met she just seemed a bit … well, different, I suppose. But I was different too! Nobody else’s mum and dad had suddenly won the lottery and come into lots of money. We were both keeping secrets, I guess.