Never Let Me Go - Opening

CHAPTER ONE

My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty years-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the end of this year. That'll make it almost exactly twelve years.

TO LORNA AND NAOMI

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