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I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain…

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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is…
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill…
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,…
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other…
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it…
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and…
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder,…

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