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Positive, Confident, Easy Going
Ponderous, over thinking.
Very silly boy.
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Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
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My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
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