354She got a B in an A Level subject, and despite getting As in the others she took, this wasn’t enough to get her into the university of her choice.

So she repeated her errant qualification, working as a waitress to support herself as her family were unhappy with her decision to take it again.

After she got the A grade, a year later, a family friend wrote to her and said this, at the letter’s end. Taken at a café in Notting Hill, London.