When he wasn’t around I too felt free and uninhibited in this house, always receiving the attention I craved and being always ‘on’. I would turn talkative, even gregarious, and needed very little persuasion to show off my Shakespeare. I had no idea why this personality hid itself behind a dark cloud whenever I went home and to this day I have not quite figured out which one is the real me, and after a point I stopped trying.
