Warmth and security.
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Warmth and security.
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Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
Like coming home in every sense.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
Very complicated.
Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.
Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.
Dreaming that I am about to go on stage or set but haven’t got the right script.
At the time, not landing the role of Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, but it all worked out fine in the long run.
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