'But that's the trouble with vocations, you don't choose them, they choose you.' Chloe amused at my plight. 'Think of Mother Teresa. When Career Guidance asked her, What you like to do when you grow up, Mother Teresa? Maybe she said, I'd like to be air hostess. Unlikely, don't you think, that she would have said, Would like to befriend lepers.'

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'We can learn from our mistakes,' she said.

But I didn't believe in that sort of thing. I preferred not to make mistakes in the first place. And if I did make them I'd rather cover them up and pretend they'd never happened.