I was sent- as soon as I could speak a sufficient amount of English, I think I was about nine when I went to the village school. Because they’d been teaching me at home. And… because I had an accent – a German accent, because I- ‘Germany, Austria: It’s all the same thing isn’t it?’ And ‘they’re Nazis’ and you know, small children, what they’re like. And… there came a day when we had a stoning. And… I refused to go back to school because I was so bullied.
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