To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
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To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
The person who had to empty the bin on that train to Oxford.
To my younger self for not being patient with myself, and for giving up on myself at times.
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
Impatience and being bossy.
Dependency. Fascism.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
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