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Grace Benson grew up on a dairy farm on isolated Great Barrier Island, where her mother was known for her nursing skills and often recounted stories of her nurse training at Thames Hospital.
Grace always wanted to be a nurse, a desire heightened by a typical teenage response to an article in the Weekly News which showed nurses in uniform who ‘looked amazing. I wanted to be like that’.
