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JB: That’s pretty cold.

EP: That shouldn’t be the way it is.

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We don't offer any intervention to people who grow up in a violent family. This is why the refuge was always full of good, gentle, men. The intervention has to be a mentor, somebody you can up look up to, like I did when I was nine.

I went to a holiday home while my parents were abroad, and I saw Miss Williams.

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She was a golf champion, she drove ambulances during the war. She had this children’s holiday home and I looked at her and I thought ‘that's who I want to be’, and she saved me.

JB: So a mentor can replace a parent?

P: It doesn’t replace the parent at all.

All a mentor does is give you a vision of what you could be. I witnessed a lot of empty arguing between my mother and father, and always swore I would never be like that, I would never lift my voice. And I've tried to do that, but it was Miss Williams who sho