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Vera, a 19-year-old undergraduate, used to have a fixation with getting her handwriting neat and "perfect". She used to stay up late at night to rewrite her notes so that they would meet her expectations. ST PHOTO: VENESSA LEE
Venessa Lee
Senior Correspondent
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Nov 30, 2020, 01:33 PM
Published
Oct 26, 2019, 11:00 AM
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SINGAPORE - Two years ago, when Vera was in her first year of junior college, she had problems taking notes.

She would rewrite them repeatedly to ensure that her handwriting was neat and "perfect", using copious amounts of correction tape.

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