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1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 – HOW TO COMPLETELY FUCK UP YOUR ONLY CHILD FOREVER WITH ONE SIMPLE SENTENCE

‘Where’s my daddy?’

‘He was a horrid fat man who didn’t like children so I sent him away.’

This fiction was repeated every time I asked the question and I was sixteen before I discovered the truth.

He fucked someone else.

No, he was a horrid fat man who didn’t like children so he got sent away, which, of course, meant it was all my fault.

My mother then married God, but there was no Baby Jesus to be my brother.