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How a single word can change a life
When I was 13½, my life at school became almost unbearable. To explain why, I need to go back to the beginning. I was born on the outskirts of a tiny fishing village in Cornwall, less than half an hour from the most south-westerly tip of the UK. I grew up in a nearby town, [...]
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