High-functioning introvert.
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Fizzy like lemonade.
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View profile →I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
My husband snoring.
Not being able to perform adequately.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
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