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When I broke my toe.
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When I heard John Noakes had died.
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I am my biggest disappointment.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
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