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Oli’s house was never what you to
call a conventional classroom.

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When I was a child, she used to
teach me maths after school.

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And I can remember dreading a
visit to the strange old lady of

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her cluttered, smelly cottage,
and animals surrounding around.

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Fifteen years later,

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Oli was living just the same. So I
decided to pay her another visit

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to find out about her unusual lifestyle.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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I don’t stay in bed.

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I get up about half past seven.

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And then after I’ve put my housecoat on,

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I make a cup of tea and have
a biscuit or something.

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[sil.]

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Uh-oh, where’s my cup? I don’t mind

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if I don’t see anyone.

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Doesn’t make any difference to me. I
agreed I do like having visitors…

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But I don’t have them
too… I’m… I’m quite happy

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not having them too long.

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In case it effects my,
my… my mental outfit.

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I can’t always think very
quickly now, like I used to.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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The house is unlocked when we arrived

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and in a West State than I’d imagined. All she
told me that she’d wanted to be up and ready.

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But as we chatted in the kitchen, I
could see that even everyday things,

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like making a cup of tea
and become a huge task.

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No, it’s not boiling.

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What’s wrong with it?

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[sil.]

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What’s wrong? Oh, it’s empty.

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It won’t, it won’t come on.

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[sil.]

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What’s gone wrong with it?
Off. Wait a minute…

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Oh, oh, that one. On. No.

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[sil.]

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Oh, oh, my head.

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I’m happy on my own. It doesn’t worry me.

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Not having too many people round.

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If they… they don’t come to see
me, I don’t let it get me down.

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[sil.]

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Isn’t this a lovely color?

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I love black and white.

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I think this is lovely. It will go
nicely on a black. Oh, yes, look.

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Oh, that’s really lovely.

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[sil.]

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I was eight years old when I used to go to Oli’s
for tutoring. The house is so cluttered up

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with old place and bits of rubbish that
she would often end up having to teach me

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in the summer house. I remember, when
I got all my times tables correct,

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all he would give me sweets which my
mother would then make me throw away

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for being years out-of-date.

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As I sat down with Oli in
her belated breakfast,

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I started to ask her about her
life before I’d known her.

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I wanted to find out where she’d come from and
why she is still living in such an isolated

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and dangerous home.

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I don’t mind if I don’t go out. It
doesn’t worry me. I like my home.

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I have no desire whatsoever to go away.

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Umm… Going places, no. I
love staying at home.

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This is my house. I was born in this house.

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And I will never leave it. And
as long as I’ve got the dog,

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and the pony, and the cat.

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She loves her animals and
her cats called Pony.

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I don’t know where she
got the name pony from.

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And because she looks after her, Pony, baby.
And baby is allowed to come into the house

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and sort of roam about and do
anything it really wants to.

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Would you say Baby’s like
one of your friends?

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Yes, she is. She is. She’s lovely.
She’s a sweet little thing.

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I’d be very upset if anything… anything
happened to her. Does she keep you company?

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Oh, yes, she does. Baby,
would you like a sandwich?

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Anything t give you? Baby,
do you want a biscuit?

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Do you want a biscuit?

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The door’s always open and
her hearing isn’t that,

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isn’t that good. I mean, she has her scares down
there where she’s had people snooping around,

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and peeping through windows, and frightened
the living daylights out of her.

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[sil.]

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Oli, you could go and live
somewhere really nice now?

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Well, I’m not happy about, mine’s all right here. you
mustn’t say it’s not nice. Umm… I love the views,

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and I love it here. ‘Cause you
could, you could sell this house

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for a couple of million pounds, because of the land. Oh, I could, because
I’ve got the land as well. So I’ve got that on top of it, you see.

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I could if I wanted to,

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but won’t. I’m perfectly happy.

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I’m perfectly all right. I enjoyed my life.

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I’m thankful for what I’ve got.

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[sil.]

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She hoards, she… she never
throws anything away.

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And so she cluttered up each room. And
as each room have become unusable,

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so she’s moved out into the next room.

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She was living there with her little dog.
And you couldn’t…

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You didn’t have access to the drawers.
There were empty milk bottles

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or half empty milk bottles everywhere, and
bits of food, obviously there were rats.

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It was overrun with rats.
Stench was just indescribable.

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The rats had eaten through the
wiring which is one of the reasons

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there was no lighting or teaching over there.
You’d see a rat come in here, go through there…

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they used to come there and they’d go
through that window. And I didn’t know

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that the window you could see
the, around the wood. I didn’t.

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I saw them everywhere and
like something bit me in bed.

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I couldn’t believe that only could be living in
what seemed to be a clearly dangerous environment.

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And yet be so adamant for her independence.

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I wanted to know what help if any she
was getting. And I found out that

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she’s geo daily visit from Liz Barnett,
a carer from her local council.

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We do a four on, four of rota.

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So it’s me for four days, and then we have
another colleague she’s on four days.

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And we do it like that. And how
many old people do you think a day?

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About seven. Right? Yeah.

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What… what do your duties and role? Our duties
are just to make her bed, empty her comode,

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put her slippers on, wash up, do
any little jobs that need doing.

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But personal care on Oli at all.
Oli’s bath upstairs, isn’t it?

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That’s right. So she can’t get upstairs. No
way, no. So umm… how does Oli bath well?

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She’ll have a strip wash in
her kitchen which she usually

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does on her own. She’s usually
done all that before we get here.

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Can I sit down here?

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I must sit down.

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So she’s a quite independent lady,

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very independent.

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[sil.]

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It’s something I didn’t ever
think that could happen to me.

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Did you, did you not want to carer?

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Well, I’m… I’m… I’m… I’m
not all that emphatically

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all that impressed with them, but
nevertheless, they do help me a lot.

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Umm… What do you say that Oli’s house is
like a typical of person’s house, so…

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Yes, yeah, and it’s nice
that they’re allowed to stay

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in their own homes. ‘Cause a lot of them are
sort of, you know, bunged off into a care home.

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And some are happy with it.

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You really didn’t want to go into home. Is it
like, you’d like you’re independent or so?

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I want to be myself. I don’t
want to sit with people.

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So what do you do when you just?
Well, we’ve done that.

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Oh, I do a lot. I do cooking.
I love cooking.

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Even… even uh… cook for Oli to eat.

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No, no cooking, she does all
her own cooking. Just sort of,

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you know, just make the place a little
bit tidy, sort of clean up in general.

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I think so umm… hotel food.

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And umm… all these what this
meant to clean up (inaudible).

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We come in and if we see anything
like that then we sort of,

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clean it up as much as we can,
but she has a cleaner come in

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once every fortnight, on a Saturday.
Does all her cleaning.

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That’s maggots something that (inaudible).
Left over food.

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Left over foods.

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Some things I’m not going to say on camera.

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What can you (inaudible). You
can yeah, I’ll clean it.

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And it’s always left for me.

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Maggots are they?

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What kind of things that they help you
with? Well, they haven’t got very, not…

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There’s not a lot of work being done.

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It’s the com… having the companionship
with them, is a lot. Yeah. I enjoy it.

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She’s a sweetie, she really is.

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[sil.]

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Aren’t we, Oli? Are you all right
out there? Oh, yeah, yeah.

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You all right out there? I’m okay.

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Now there’s a headline,

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\"Dad caught Rex with a
PVC-clad girl on dog lead.\"

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Sounds rather funny, doesn’t it? Fetish.

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Well, I don’t think much of that. She
isn’t. Do you want a cup of tea?

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I would really like a coffee.
Coffee. Yes, please.

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We’re not supposed to get involved in our job.
You know, we’re supposed to just come in,

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do a job, but you can’t help it. You
know, you get… get attached to them.

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You’re not supposed to.

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What do you think about umm… Oli living
conditions and things? Pretty, pretty poor.

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Pretty poor. Yeah, no, not very safe.

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We’ve been banned from going upstairs, to
the toilet up there. We can’t, you know,

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empty commodes up there
because of it’s unsafe.

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Umm… She can’t get up the stairs anyway

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so she just likes to be
independent living at home.

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Do you want to, would you get
somewhere out there? No. No, not me.

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No, not at all.

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I couldn’t do that.

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Maggots in there.

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This is a furnace about Oli’s
situation surprise me.

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She was clearly overwhelmed by the
amount of work needed to be done.

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But at the same time, she’s
been very attached to Oli.

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[music]

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You can have a holiday

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for… for nine pounds, five, fifty.
I don’t know where you would go.

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Heaven knows. Can’t be much
of it, can it, really.

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[sil.]

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[music]

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Liz Barnett is gone for the day, Oli’s talk returned
once again to the past and her life she had known.

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It was to bring up some
interesting discoveries.

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I know lots and lots of
people would have no idea

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that I, that I had a husband
that was a Pools winner

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and a big one. I tend to gasp about my life

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because it has been. But the worst
thing was that room the Pools.

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And I tried to forget that.
And I said, \"I don’t want to

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hear anymore about it.\"
Reluctantly Oli told me that

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in 1953, her husband Johnny had struck
lucky on the little woods fools.

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It turned out they’d won over 35,000 pounds

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equivalent today of just under a million.

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Oli’s life would never be the same again.

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I know it was a nice lot of money,
but it did not bring us happiness.

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It was, it was really, uh… it was awful.

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As gossip spread of Oli’s big pools win,

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Oli found her life changing. And she
retreated into the safety of her own home.

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We tried to keep it quiet, you see.

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But once the village knew it, oh,

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the village gossip was awful. If you
went out anywhere in the evening,

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you had nasty… nasty things said to you.
I wouldn’t go to anything

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I was invited to because I would get it
all thrown at me about… about the money.

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I would’ve given anything in the
world, to have given that money away.

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I… I didn’t want it. Johnny wanted to leave

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the small village of Fairfield and
have the millionaire’s lifestyle.

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Oli, however was perfectly content to stay
in the family home and continue teaching.

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I was doing my teaching. And I
would, I could cope with everything.

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I had him. But he had that. And
it made all the difference to us.

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It completely ruined our
marriage, our marriage.

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If we had stayed as we were,

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our marriage would’ve been all right, but
because of all this money and because of…

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Oh, everything changed.

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And my life marriage, my
marriage, went, after that.

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Eventually, umm… he went
and we never saw him.

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I never saw him again. He,
his, he came in one morning,

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and packed a bag and there
was no… no row or anything.

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And I never saw him again.

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[music]

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As Oli only began to reveal her
past to me from her difficult life

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in the village to her husband’s abandonment.
I felt like I was finally gaining

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some understanding of what could make
someone choose this solitary lifestyle.

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But Oli didn’t become a recluse overnight.
Now on her own,

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she decided to pursue the career that I would end
up knowing her best for becoming a headmistress.

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That was my life,

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that was all I thought about
nothing else, nothing mattered.

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I was determined I was going to have
a school. I’m not staying like this.

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[music]

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And as younger day, she taught there a long time, and then she
sought a semi-retired, and then she taught them from her own notes.

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I think you must be lonely.

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You know, if you’re living like that at that age and she
hasn’t got any family, she didn’t have any children, did she?

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So I would imagine having the children come into her
house like that was a way of filling it with life.

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And you know, the things that perhaps she missed out
on because she didn’t have children of her own.

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I… I think soon as she stopped,
I think the depression hit her.

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I think really is teaching the children having the children
in the land, the mothers in the mad, kept her gonna,

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gave her a reason to go on. And I think
she just lost some of that reason.

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I loved my young.

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That was all that mattered.
Nothing else mattered.

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That’s all I’ve got, that…
No promise (inaudible).

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No, no, got no one.

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They aren’t, they aren’t
filming at the minute.

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I dread it.

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I dread it every time. Georgie tells me about
something. Oh, no, don’t let me look at it.

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I don’t want to see it. You
don’t worry if she (inaudible).

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Well, well, what about the all the other
ones you got then? They’re lovely.

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What do the others look like? (inaudible). Well, you’ve got Maggie,
have you? Yeah, I got it. You get the most glamorous person.

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Oh, that’s very nice of you to say.

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Despite the state of Oli’s home,

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appearances seem to matter a great deal to
her. And as we taught, an old photograph

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in the corner of her living room gave a rare
glimpse of her past life as a beautiful

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and glamorous young lady. When I
met Oli’s neighbors Sue Pearce,

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she surprised me by mentioning that not only was
she a friend, but she was also on his beautician.

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Hello, lovely to see you. That is nice.

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I live down the road. So I often
visit only usually at the weekends

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and… and help her with her nails.
Yes, they’re very bad.

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I make her up and put glitter on her.

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And we might choose clothes. And she said
you think this new, you think of that.

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And actually she has got very good taste.

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Yes, I love the way your hair is done.
Thank you. Okay, it feels it’s not better.

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It’s just and a little bit (inaudible).
They are, I agree.

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Your caress come in and look after
you today. Oh, they’ve been today.

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They’ve been today. They don’t do
very much work but… They do bits.

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Well, they do bits. Well,
yes, you’re right.

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She’s just on… And you have to accept her
for how she is as anybody. We all have

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our strange little idiosyncrasies.
Well, have you got anything paler?

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Never mind I’ll be all right.

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Okay. I won’t put it on too
heftily and then it’s just.

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I enjoy her company. She makes me laugh.

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And sometimes she makes me despair.
But on the other hand,

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she’s… she’s happy. She is and everybody else
their own right to live as they want to live.

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Oh, (inaudible) great. It is? Yes. You must
use some. (inaudible). What colour is it?

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It’s sky light. It’s a sky light. Nice too.

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Oh, yes. Just bright (inaudible).
Does… yes.

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As I watched an amazement

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as suit lamb rise in 19-year-old Oli,
the strange scene in front of me

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seemed to sum up so much of Oli’s
eccentric and contradictory nature.

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And if you just take that one (inaudible).
Wanting to let glamorous despite her age,

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wanting to be independent
despite her infirmity,

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needing to be somewhere safe but refusing to
go. Oh, you know, pink is my favorite color.

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I do. I do. I got everything
pink that I can get. Yeah.

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Even the breakfast rum was
done… done with pink.

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Yes. That’s lovely. I couldn’t help

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but feel that the betrayal of Oli’s
husband had never truly escaped her.

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Despite her defiance, she had
retreated further and further

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into her solitary life
with animals and children,

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the only companion she
felt she could trust.

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But of course, for Oli,
she was exactly the way

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she wanted to be.

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[music]

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Living here even sitting out
in this sun like I am today is

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umm… my idea of living a happy life.

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[music]

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What do you think like old people living
by themselves? Well, I don’t know.

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Umm… I really don’t know there
must be probably some people

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that don’t like living
by themselves, but I do.

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Uh… I… I know what it is like living by oneself
but I like it that it’s part of my happy,

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part of my life that is living by myself.

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[music]

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She does live and conventionally.

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What is lovely to Oli? It wouldn’t
be lovely to you, all right.

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Oh, I nearly chocked.

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Oh, he’s not filming that, they are?
He’s not filming it.

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[music]

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Look at that. That’s a, that’s a lens.

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Sorry. That’s a len, a lens, isn’t it?
Lens. Lens. Yeah, yeah.

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It’s a marvel. Well, I… I’ve
never seen anything like it.

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I… I can’t im-I had no idea
that pho-cameras could be

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that expensive and all that!
My word! Whatever have…

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You’ve got everything
on there, haven’t you!

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[music]

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After filming had concluded and the crew
started to back away, I could not help

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feeling a sense that I too was abandoning Oli.
Her claims that she was living as she wanted

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that little to ease my concerns about
the lack of care she’s receiving.

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Despite this,

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I couldn’t help but admire Oli’s undeniable
spirit. And the way she’d overcome

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extraordinary obstacles in her life.

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Oli was truly

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someone unforgettable, a free spirits
determined to keep her independence

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at any cost right to the end.

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You’re happy being independent. (inaudible).
Oh, yes. You wouldn’t want it any other way?

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No, nope. You wouldn’t wanna?
No, no. I want to die here.

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If I’ve I got too, anyway.

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Well, that’s it.

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She looks so young. Is that really?
I think you look really young.

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Yeah. (inaudible) I do. I do.

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Do you believe it? Look at your skin, you haven’t
many wrinkles, have you? You’ve got very good skin.

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(inaudible)

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[music]

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Thank you very much (inaudible).
I’m really love you.

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(inaudible).