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“My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn't supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn't know how to make it right. Mummy's way of thinking was wrong. I knew that. But no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, & although I'd tried my best over the years, I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”

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