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I love this

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ty my pal!!

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that part about people meeting on bicycles has stayed with me since I first read it years ago, makes me smile every time I think about it 🚲💖

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This is perfect, thank you Amy. I may write my own list this weekend 💜 Love the poem.

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thanks so much Ruth - I hope you enjoy doing it!

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Iconic CBBCs show Byker Grove for not being waifish enough - I feel like I need to know more!

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I have a nightly rejection on winter nights when our terrier Morris creeps out of his basket, jumps on our bed and gets under the covers to nestle up to MY HUSBAND!

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I’m in the US, so no doubt the shops themselves were different, but the rejection of juniors clothing shops made me feel so utterly alien—one was called 5-7-9, because those were the sizes they carried. Literally nothing for me there. I remember getting stuck in a cool silver dress in Contempo Casuals, which I knew would *never* fit, and it was as though rejection had ironically found a way to fuse itself to me.

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