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To my mum; I wish I’d known her better before she passed in 2016.
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My younger self for being hard on myself.
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To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.
On the way here, because I was late.
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
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