Until I started at the gymnas I had always woken to a house where mum and dad were already up and on their way to work with all that entailed, cigarette smoke, coffee drinking, listening to the radio, eating breakfast and car engines warming up outside in the dark. This was something else, and I loved it. I also loved walking the kilometre or so through the old residential area to school, it always filled me with thoughts I liked, such as that I was someone.

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