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Guess how I MADE MY MILLIONS!

PROPERTY PHENOMENON

Nicole Bremner, 43, is from Rochester, Kent.

When I look back on school, I think of myself singing, acting or playing sport, but my friends say I always had my nose in a book. My parents were both nurses and, when they separated, money was short. I took a job in a burger bar to help out. Watching Mum jot down every penny she spent, I promised myself that my life would never be so constrained.

While I was studying science at university, I took a summer job with a stockbroker. It put me in contact with wealthy people and I switched to a finance degree, knowing I wanted to make my own money and see the world. Despite a malignant tumour behind my eye, which left me partially sighted at 26, I got a job in a high-end bank. But I

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