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Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
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View all 209 →I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
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I think I over-apologise as it is.
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Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
Either shredding duck in a Chinese restaurant, or Oblivion.
Right now, terrifying.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
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