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Other passages relive a childhood Easter egg disappearance and a teenage diary of bullying, later revisited decades afterward. Across these vignettes, resilience emerges as the narrator transforms hurt, fear, and disappointment into determination and self-possession.","Extract 1: A Memorable Incident  \nIt was an ordinary school day; I'd arrived at school at the same time, put my bag in the same place and gone to play with the same friends in the same area I always went to.  \nI was seven at the time, and liked to think myself a bit of a budding artist. So when the playtime bell went, I went straight over to the corner where I always went. The corner with the box of Lego. The pieces shone at me like red, white and yellow treasure.  \nWithin minutes I'd started putting the pieces together in order to resemble my new masterpiece: a glorious plane.  \nSoon after, I had created it. My piece of art. I beamed proudly as I showed my friends my new creation. Da Vinci would've been proud; I was sure of it! I put it carefully on the side because I wanted to make sure it didn't break.  \nThen, the ginger haired boy approached me. \"Let me see that\" he said. I looked at him suspiciously.\"Go on, it's really good!\" he exclaimed. So I passed it to him. 'He only wants to admire its beauty' I thought. \"What's that meant to be?\" he asked, baffled.  \n\"It's a plane!\" I replied. The next few minutes are vague in my memory, but I remember him wanting to help me make it look more like a plane, and me refusing his help because I thought it looked like a great plane as it was. Almost good enough to take off, I thought. He got frustrated. That's when it happened…  \nExtract 2: An Autobiography  \nLondon Road Primary School was a small collection of Victorian buildings, nestled cosily beside the town’s larger and more modern comprehensive. To my bewildered, four-year-old eyes, it was a vast and frightening place.  \nSqueezed into my uncomfortable grey skirt and stiff white shirt, I tugged constantly on the unfamiliar green and gold tie as I stood in the playground, clutching my mum’s hand on that first, frightening day. Around me, other small children clung to their parents, wide-eyed and fearful, waiting to be summoned through the doors of that great institution.  \nAt nine o’clock exactly, Mrs Hargreaves arrived at the door to reception class and beckoned us forward. ‘Single file, no talking,’ she commanded. Meekly, we said goodbye to our parents and lined up like lambs to the slaughter. It took all my strength not to burst into tears.  \nInside, the classroom was austere and forbidding. We were later to discover that Mrs Hargreaves had an aversion to electricity and very seldom allowed the overhead strip lights to be switched on. As a result, I spent the first two years of my education in a state of semi-gloom, both literally and metaphorically.  \n‘Find your desk and sit in silence!’  \nThirty trembling children wandered through the rows of desks, looking for their name, each of which had been written in a perfect, copperplate hand on small pieces of card, and then placed on the desks. Soon, most of us were sitting – save for five stragglers who found themselves standing at the front, under the gorgon’s eye.  \n‘Why are you not sitting down?’  \nThe tallest girl, who I recognised from play group as Lisa Smith, piped up bravely.  \n‘We can’t read, Miss.’  \n‘Idiots!’Her voice rang in our ears and the smallest boy at the front started crying.  \nExtract 3: The Missing Easter Egg  \nWhen I was six my Auntie May gave me the most beautiful Easter egg I had ever seen. It seemed enormous. The egg was covered with shiny paper and inside a special box. There was a hole cut out in the side of the box and through it you could see the curve of the egg shining in its silver paper. Seeing it shine through the hole in the box was like looking through a window and seeing the moon. It was still a week to go to Easter Sunday so I put the box on the high shelf in my bedroom and every morning and every night I looked up at the egg and dreamed of how good it was going to taste.  \nOn Easter Sunday morning I woke up really early and the first thing I did was to stand on my bed and reach for my egg. 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