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I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.
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A bilious green suit springs to mind.
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My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.
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I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
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That we waited so long to have children, we only have two.
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