"“Never fancied him anyway,” I’d write when a boy dumped me. I’d leave out things that had gone wrong, or been difficult. I think it was partly an exercise in defiance, a refusal to be defeated by life’s adversities. So in that sense, my diary was a bit of a self-help manual, written by me, for me."
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On reading past diaries in “Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’” in The Guardian (2020 Jan 25)
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