would have had to...compromise. Take my partner’s feelings into account. Let them read the manuscript of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober and listen to feedback as to whether they were cool with my revealing details of drunken one-night stands. Not go and live in a different country for seven months, if they didn’t want me to. I mean, I could have gone to Bruges for three weeks maybe, or I could have written a watered-down, less raw book, but man-oh-man, that would have been annoying when what I wanted was to grab each endeavour by the scruff of the neck. Single, I have been able to make my
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