Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
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Big dick energy.
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Brave, naughty, diligent.
Living a fairytale.
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View profile →Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends.
As a nice human being who gave a shit.
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