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Murder she wrote

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: In 1998, as you were finishing high school in Sydney, you were awarded a scholarship to Harvard. How did that come about?

CERIDWEN DOVEY: “It was quite random, actually. I’m South African originally but my family had moved back and forth. We’d been in Melbourne in the early 80s, gone back to South Africa, and then ended up in Sydney when I was in year nine. My sister, Lindiwe, who is older than me, had an American friend who was applying to US colleges, and she was quite intrigued by that. Lindiwe got a four-year full scholarship and went off on her own with her one suitcase, having never been to America or knowing how the American college system worked. When it came time, I was just monkey see, monkey do.”

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