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Susan Peel is over ninety years old. She is very happy, but she can remember times when her life was difficult.
Her parents … when she was twelve. She … work as a housemaid with a rich family. There were five children, so she … after them. She … with that family for twenty years until she … .

Her parents died when she was twelve. She started to work as a housemaid with a rich family. There were five children, so she looked after them. She had been working /worked with that family for twenty years until she retired .