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Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
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Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
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Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
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A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
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