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Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.
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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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View all 367 →I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
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Spending over half my life under Tory rule.
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Not winning Celebrity MasterChef. I am still gutted, despite many months of pretending to be fine with it.
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