Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vanti west coast feel good travel

The following episode contains discussion of suicide and child loss that some

listeners might find upsetting, so please do take care as you listen.

For most people, university is their first real foray into the wider world, a chance to look beyond the boundaries of what they were told they could be

and find out who they truly are. Can be the first step on a journey to a specific career

or simply the chance to play around with new ideas and figure out how to become an adult, which for me is still a work

in progress.

For some people though, it's also the chance to leave behind the past and other people's impressions of them.

Whoever they were known as in high school, the weird kid, the nerd, the popular over-achiever,

or just an average nobody.

All these things can be completely erased to make room for the person they want to be.

In the autumn of 2008, when she was 20 years old, Samantha Cooks began that journey of reinvention, enrolling at the University of York in the North of England to start a degree in occupational therapy.

School had been difficult, but her future looked bright. Going to university gave her a chance to do something

she really loved and start a whole new life. But things didn't quite go according to

plan. If her first year of university had turned out differently,

perhaps she would have left York with a degree in occupational therapy, a new group of friends,

and an exciting future to look forward to. But less than a year

after starting university Samantha experienced a tragedy that changed the

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