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Fear and all of its consequences.
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Ungratefulness.
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
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View profile →Probably when I didn’t sleep for a week on drugs in 2009. I’d had a lot of meth and my heart felt like it was giving out. I remember climbing over balconies really high up, and I thought I was going to die, until I eventually fell asleep in someone’s garden.
The last time I held my children and every time before that. They’ve been my salvation.
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