To my mum; I wish I’d known her better before she passed in 2016.
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I’ve said sorry to everybody I wanted to – I’m good at saying sorry quickly.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
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