“people have achieved all kinds of crazy things at the age of 18”

We’ve got a really close-knit family. My relationship with my parents has always been really good. Now I hold up my parents as models of how to raise my own children. My children are really young at t

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

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