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Magda Healey first came to the UK from Poland to improve her English in 1992 and liked it so much she stayed for eighteen months instead of her visa-allotted six. She fell in love with a Brit in 1996 and since then has moved back and forth between Poland and the UK several times. She worked in Britain as an employee, temp and a self-employed contractor; rented rooms in shared houses, bedsits, flats and houses both furnished an unfurnished; paid taxes and claimed benefits; got married, learned to drive, bore two British children and recently got round to obtaining her first ever UK passport almost 10 years after swearing allegiance to the Queen. She's still baffled by separate taps for hot and cold water and doesn't understand that you need to go out the moment the sun shows through the cloud, because even in July it might not last.

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