She had learnt the piano as a child and had hoped to be a dancer.

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It included her singing a song she had first learnt when she was 16.

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She had eventually learnt of them from the novels of Mary McCarthy who, like Miss Fletcher, had been a student at Vassar.

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She said when she had first joined she did not have a lot of experience apart from doing embroidery at home but she has learnt on the job.

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She learnt about the marriage bureau from a doctor who had been treating her.

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