December 9, 2020

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When Did You Call Yourself a Writer?

28 years of diary keeping helped me realise I was one On my seventh birthday I started a diary, a tiny blue book with hearts on the cover, my stories — mostly about my love for Shauna the Grade 1 music teacher, and detailed descriptions of the lollies I bought with my pocket money — kept safe by a heart-shaped lock. These diaries have accumulated over the years. The physical ones — before I started storing my thoughts in a...