In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
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When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
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