My Sicilian impulsiveness.
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I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
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My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
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A full-time driver/butler/chef.
An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
I’d like them to inherit my optimism.
Trolling, meanness and male violence.
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