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Cruelty to animals or children.
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Self-importance.
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The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
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Sensitive, kind, silly.
Having regrets.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Selfless and open, freeing.
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