On the afternoon of March 4, 2016, my dream of going to university was hanging by a thread.
I stared at the list of letters on my A-level results slip, a list on which my immediate future rested. While I had done well for General Paper and history, my disappointing results for three other subjects called into question the possibility of entering university.
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