“What is the EU?” came in second place.

Still, as the big day drew closer, Clarke says her conversations with friends in person and on social media gave her hope that “‘remain’ could have a chance.”

But now, “I genuinely believe that people did not vote for this decision based on facts,” she says, pointing to the admission by U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage on Friday that one of the “leave” campaign’s central pledges — that exiting the EU would free up £350 million a week for the National Health Service — was “a mistake.”

- In Brexit aftermath, some young Brits consider moving abroad, Yahoo.com, June 30, 2016.

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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

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