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Sir Richard Branson's Autobiography

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Here you can read the first chapter from Richard Branson's Autobiography "Losing My Virginity."

You can buy the full autobiography online at Virgin Books

Chapter 1: A family that would have killed for each other. 1950 - 1963

MY CHILDHOOD IS SOMETHING of a blur to me now, but there are several episodes that stand out. I do remember that my parents continually set us challenges. My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. My youngest sister Vanessa's earliest memory is being woken up in the dark one January morning because Mum had decided I should cycle to Bournemouth that day. Mum packed some sandwiches and an apple and told me to find some water along the way....

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