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Doug Martin's avatar

Although I believe you when you say "I would not change a single thing about my childhood", your story makes me unbearably sad. It makes me want to take you in my arms and tell you that you are important and you deserve unconditional love. You do not have to sing for your supper.

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Miranda R Waterton's avatar

Ah, I KNEW I’d heard of you somewhere before - it was the Guardian and Where You End and I Begin is already on my shelf. But what brought me here was the free share of the Katherine Birbalsingh piece, which was so impressive, not least in its very telling choice of anecdotes, and the subtlety of your final paragraphs, which perhaps could not have been penned by someone educated entirely within the English class system.

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