Jan leaves her family home and familiar surroundings to star afresh (Illustration: Michael De Lucchi)
It had taken a while for me to come to terms with the idea of moving to a new property. I’d been living in the same house since I was five, and moving was the last thing on my agenda. But as everyone knows, life sometimes has a way of directing you rather than you directing it.
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