Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
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View all 209 →Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
The trans community because I didn’t use the correct words, but I’ve learned from my mistake.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate until after she’d gone that she was a vulnerable human being. I just expected her to know everything and be everything.
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View profile →Being dad to my kids and having a family.
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
I have worked in McDonald’s.
Beijing 2008 – not making the Olympic final.
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