Daily writing prompt

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a nurse. I think it was a profession many little girls aspired to. We all had little nurse’s uniforms and medical bags.

When I was about ten or eleven, we went to Dublin to visit our cousins. My eldest cousin, Mary, was sitting at big table surrounded by books – big books in my little eyes. Mary was in the middle of her general nurse training.

My mother said to me, ‘That’s what you’ll have to do to become a nurse.’ That was the end of that dream for me!

Honestly, I don’t think I would have been cut out for it anyway. I’m too queasy when it comes to blood and pain.