I am aware that as soon as you start to write words such as dark, troubled and childhood in the same sentence you know you’ve taken a turn down self indulgence alley, but there is no avoiding the fact that I had what would be considered a pretty volatile time as a kid.
This would have permitted me (some would say) to have settled for an easy life justified by this knowledge but I never wanted anyone to say “well it’s understandable how he turned out isn’t it… I mean look at what he had to deal with”.
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