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Introduction -- The List D Schools and St Roch's -- The role of the De La Salle Brothers in the approved and List D Schools -- Positioning myself in St Roch's -- The backgrounds of the St Roch's boys -- Education in its widest sense A sense of care -- Discipline and abuse -- Moving on and looking back -- Care in a cold climate: changing patterns of care and upbringing in neoliberalism -- Making sense of the narrative gap -- Epilogue: Looking back with sadness and not a little anger.

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