To a resistant materials teacher at secondary school called Mr Noel. He had a comb-over and whenever he turned his back to write on the blackboard, we would roll up bits of paper and launch them at his head. Once, I hit him. I remember him turning around and looking crestfallen.
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
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My kids, for not being around much.
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A few ex-girlfriends in my teens. I didn’t know how to treat a lady.
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