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I think I over-apologise as it is.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
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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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To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
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To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
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