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For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
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When I heard John Noakes had died.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
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