Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining. Sue Townsend
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  3. I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her. - Tom Leveen

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  1. Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

  2. Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

  3. Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.

  4. She was alone. She missed him immediately.

  5. She had always been comforted by confectionery

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