When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.
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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.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
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A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
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