A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
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It would be a racist comment.
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It’s the stuff about my appearance that sticks. I read I had a face like a crumpled napkin and teeth that could till a field.
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I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
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By my friends and loved ones as someone who loved ferociously and always had their back.
The FA Cup final, watching Crystal Palace win.
Not being a scratch golfer.
Double-glazing sales when I was about 16 – on the phone, cold calling. Horrendous.
I was 17 and about to go on a first date with my first boyfriend. I was so desperate for my mum not to meet him that I was trying to get to the door before she did. I ran down the stairs as she opened it, and slid down the last five steps on my arse.
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