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Donna Francis: Expecting a Fight

Donna was born in 1983 in Kent. She lived with her family in Folkestone, attending her local mainstream primary and secondary schools. She then went on to university.

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Here Donna talks about her supportive mum.

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I think it was always accepted that I would go to Morehall. And I don’t think my mum would have wanted me to go anywhere else. And the kind of person – we have talked about it briefly and she was expecting a fight for everything, you know, throughout my life, so she would have fought for it.

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