Jim Kerr
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Like Celtic hitting the back of the net in the 90th minute of a Champions League football match.
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Like you are standing with an army.
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Basking in the sun.
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Relief and an achy feeling in your cheeks from smiling.
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View profile →Ten years ago I bought a painting. I lived with it for a year before realising I didn’t like it at all. So it’s on my wall, mocking me daily.
As I get older, I get happier.
To anyone I’ve worked with between 5.30am and 8.30am. I am not a morning person.
My father, because he’s never run away from anything.
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
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