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A tennis player.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗
The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
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Other people’s suffering.
The usual racist shit.
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