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A moment that changed me: I learned to read and write – at 42

I had worked for 25 years, married and started a family. But a crisis at the supermarket reminded me there was something missing from my life In 2021, at 42 years old, I had the reading age of a four-…

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The Guardian United Kingdom · 14 October 2026

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