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Three weeks ago I had my second miscarriage. The past six months have hollowed out my insides (literally and figuratively) and left me with a disturbing propensity to burst into tears at random moments. My life is on hold while I try to do something I thought would be easy. The fact it isn’t easy […]
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“Why are your eyebrows so eyebrow-y at one end but not eyebrow-y at the other?” “You have like big hair and a tiny face. It looks nice… On some people” “I kicked this boy in the testicles and then stamped on his face because he said I looked like a mouse” “I saw you with your […]
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The Virgin Mary breastfeeding: no pressure. Two months and a day ago I became a mum. My daughter barged her way into the world at 8 pounds 14 ounces after a 32 hour labour, a compound birth, forceps, a suction cup and an episiotomy (where they cut you ‘to avoid tearing’). It felt like the […]
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It started, as these things so often do, with a German sausage. Looking for a pre-theatre bite and hankering after a bit of bratwurst und sauerkraut, I was scanning the menu at Herman ze German to see what schnitzel I could see. Grace Dent once described their sausages as ‘pink and limp, not utterly dissimilar […]
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In the many years before our engagement, a friend of ours used to joke that my (now) fiancé and I should be the pilot participants in a new twist on wedding-related reality TV, a show of his own devising ingeniously entitled, ‘Don’t Tell the Groom’. The premise of the show would be roughly the […]
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Let’s talk about cysts, baby! I’m going to tell you about that time that I didn’t have herpes. It was a totally awesome and lazy diagnosis, because I was 24 and sexually active. The fact that I’d been sleeping exclusively with my recently ex-boyfriend for six years, and that he’d never had sex with anyone […]
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