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I was in Kensington Gardens and this couple stopped me and said: “Hey, could we get a picture? I said: “Sure.” I put my arms around their shoulders, and they looked at me and said: “No, can you take a picture of us?”
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
Where do I begin?
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
That I am not wise.
Carelessness of truth and others.
Surprise. Smiles. Courage. Safety.
The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
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