My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
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View all 209 →Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
To my children, because their mum and dad’s relationship failed, and I know that has caused them great sadness.
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