Bella felt she was really getting her life together after several years of struggling. She had moved to London when she was eighteen and shared a flat in Shoreditch with Sarah, a girl she knew from home. Sarah worked in an insurance company in Liverpool Street. After a few non-starters, Bella got a job at a local hairdressers as an apprentice.  She had no experience except a desire to learn a trade and better herself. It was a means to an end and her first foot on the ladder.  What she really wanted was to save enough money to go to one of the hairdressing academies. There she would gain more experience and realise her ambition of working as a hairdresser to the stars. That was well out of her reach, but she had to start somewhere.

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