I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
I am the world's worst diabetic.
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
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