Curious, suggestible, silly.
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Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
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I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
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When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
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