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There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
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It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
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My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
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