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Trying to think of a recipe I’ve forgotten. I keep a notebook by my bed now.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
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Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.
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Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
A fishmonger, then a surgeon.
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