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Originally asked
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“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗
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The usual racist shit.
I’ll never amount to anything. Who? He was my rival at dance school. It hurt and is something that I’ve always had in the back of my head to defy.
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Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
Just being remembered at all would be great.
I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
Now, with time and wisdom you know your happy places.
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