SINGAPORE – As a child, Ms Cassandra Nadira Lee envied her friends whose parents worked office hours and had time for them on weekends.
Her mother ran a neighbourhood hair salon in Queenstown and her father was a wet market butcher, which meant Saturdays and Sundays were their busiest days.
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