I started out with only the clothes I stood up in.

And then I took them off.

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peterlee · M

I came from the East Anglian slums. The day after I left school I was on the strawberry fields, back aching and in the heat.

Read Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov when I got home. That was preparation for life.

SchoolBelle · 61-69, F

@peterlee Everything you do is preparation for what follows.