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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason
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new Land. This is let me buoy to sleep LM
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LMB white Yes, LLMB white Yes, yeah, mis lebitz.
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Yeah.
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So it is Monday, the twenty fifth of August two
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thousand and twenty five. Hello, Hello, it's my brother's birthday
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today and tomorrow Tuesday, the twenty six of August twenty
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twenty five. It's my birthday, my.
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Mine, mine.
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So yeah, I will be tomorrow fifty five years old,
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fifty five, fifty fifty five, even if you say a
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quick least it sounds old, yep, fifty five. As I
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got my hand on top of my head, really feeling
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the temperature difference in my bald spot. It's weird and like, ugh,
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I wonder, I'm not sure if I wonder if I
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have any hair by the time I'm sixty five. So yeah,
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so it's my brother was born well now clearly was
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born the day before my birthday when I was I
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turned eight. So basically he was born the day before
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my eighth birthday. And I remember that quite clearly. Yeah,
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so I'll tell you about that in a minute. Oh yeah,
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I got uncle sausages funeral on Thursday at nine thirty,
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So that's going to be a weird one. But I
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do still intend to do a Q and A Friday
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This Friday. I need to post a question thing on
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faith book. I had a lot of questions last time
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last Friday, lots and lots of questions. So I'm gonna
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if I remember, I will post that. I could do
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it now while I'm thinking about No, I can't because
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there's no Internet on my phone because I always put
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it onto Yeah, I put it onto what's it called
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airplane boot mode so I don't get disturbed by all
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the millions of phone calls that I get on a
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daily basis me. So yeah, I'll do that after this.
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So it's bank Collored in Monday here in the British
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Isles of the UK England Commonwealth, and it's a nice
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day outside. It's really nice, little bit of wind which
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is good. It's fairly hot there, very sunny. What he
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took Vinnie out earlier about seven o'clock ish have call
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s He barked at a couple of dogs like he does.
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I missed the old days when he was really like
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when he was ten months old and I first got him.
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He was happy to see every single dog excited. He
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just wanted to run up to them and be friends.
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He's not like that anymore. He's got the dogs that
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he's friends with, and anyone new he's not particularly interested in,
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and especially the big dogs. He doesn't like big dogs,
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or generally black dogs. But he's got a couple of
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black dog friends, so he's not completely racist, but he's
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definitely you know, he's got a thing about sheep dogs,
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what they call colliers or whatever they're called. Yet one
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of his good friends is a collier. It's I can't
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figure him out, really, So I'm not a big fan
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of him doing it anytime, but not early in the
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morning or late at night. Just not not really don't
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really enjoy that. It's because some people like he did it.
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Yesterday we turned a corner and there was someone there
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have a dog and did he's barking, and both the
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people the dog would give me funny looks like it's
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just a dog. He's barking. That's what dogs do. Man.
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But you know, I could be responsible for him up
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to a limit. You know, he's on a lead, he
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can't do any mischief. But as far as barking. He's
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going to do that. He's a dog, that's what you know.
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I can't stop him from barking. I try and stop him,
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and I'm usually able to calm him down. But ultimately,
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if he decides to start barking, which I think is
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kind of automatic behavior, he doesn't plan it. He's not
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got a little alarm goes off on his on his
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watch that tells him all time to bark. No, it's
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just an automatic response to outside stimuli. I'm guessing I
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don't know where he is. He's on the floor somewhere.
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He came in licking his lips. So I've got some food,
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got some water or change his waterever because he was
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in a bedroom with his water in his food, did
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not touch his food from last night. So I've given
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him some new food. Put it out. I haven't got
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anywhere near it. And I think he's just done a
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big fart. Wit. No, it wasn't me, it was him.
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If it was me, it was a silent one. But
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normally even if it's silent, you know, just still feel
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the air. Bad, bad, bad. So yeah, it's another week,
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another week in August. It's the last week of August,
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I do believe. So what we've got twenty six tomorrow,
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just Tuesday, my birthday, fifty five, twenty seventh, on Wednesday,
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twenty third, on Thursday, twenty third, Wow, twenty six, twenty seven, Wednesday,
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twenty eighth, Thursday, twenty ninth, Friday, thirtieth, Saturday Day, very
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first Sunday, and the first of September will be next
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Monday in a week's time. So, yeah, that was a
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bit pointless, really, wasn't. I just reading out the numbers
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of the days. The weird thing is, I just really
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enjoyed doing it, and I don't know why. I don't know. Yeah,
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I haven't really done much today, although it's still fairly early.
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It's only eleven twenty five in the morning. I mean recently,
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I have been doing recordings a little bit earlier than this,
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but it's been relatively quiet outside, so I thought, oh,
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maybe i'll make a recording. There's not much screaming and shouting,
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and you know, ding dong was going on out there.
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Plus one two three four one two four Our six
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of the flats in this building are empty at the
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moment today. Anyway, one's on holiday. I think one's gone
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away for the weekend or so. I don't know. I
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haven't seen them because I put some black bags out
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there out the front for them. There's a little gift
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and they haven't brought it in, so I guess they're
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not around. And then one downstairs on a holiday, and
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then they have two flats that are empty anyway, So
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there's only me and downstairs that they're here today, So
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pretty quiet and I don't make much noise generally, I'm
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fairly fairly useful neighbor. I would, I would, I think,
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I hope. So I have asked intermittently my neighbor downstairs
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just to make sure that I'm being quiet enough, because
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I don't, you know, I don't want to be one
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of those noisy neighbors. That's alwayst like my worst scenario.
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Just yeah, other than having a really noisy neighbor has
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to that's that's up higher than that, you know, so hmmm, yeah,
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the weakerheads looking well, I don't really do anything on
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my birthday anymore.
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I used to.
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I used to celebrate my birthday every single year, not
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as in like having a birthday celebration like party or
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anything like that. I'm talking about as an adult when
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I was a kid, I used to have parties. I think, yeah,
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pretty much. But as an adult, most of the time,
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when I was in London, I would take the day
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off on my birthday. I'd go up to the West
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End and just chill out. I'll become I suppose, like
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a tourist for the day and I'd go and eat out,
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and I'd go and I'd be on my own every
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single time, and I'll just, you know, just go to
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the West End. I would look around, go into the bookshops,
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maybe buy a book, go and get McDonald's. I saw
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her an advert or saw an advert on TV for McDonald's.
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And now they're using the term Mackie d for McDonald's,
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which just shows you how how slow companies are to
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use because I heard that term when I like twenty
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five years ago, people talking about Macky D's. So now
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McDonald's just realized that people use that term. I personally
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don't use that term because it's McDonald's. I did the
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idea of actually making a cute name for something that's
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so harmful for me, you know, I mean McDonald's. Okay.
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I used to like McDonald's used to be a treat.
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Now it's I would have. I would go to McDonald's
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if there was nothing else to eat. It would be
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a last resort. I think i'd even choose a sausage
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roll over McDonald's meal. Generally, yes, it's if I'm in
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the middle of somewhere and I've got no other food.
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I'll go to McDonald's only if there's McDonald's there, because
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otherwise I wouldn't be able to go, would I.
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No.
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Oh, So my birthday, my birthday, my birthday, My my birthday,
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my birthday, my birthday, Oh fifty five? How many birthdays
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I can remember? I can't remember last year. Well, birthdays
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stand out in my life. Okay, the first birthday I
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call was when I was living in Newcastle in a
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children's home, and I come down. I've told this story before,
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but I come downstairs because my birthday was always during
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the summer holidays when I was at school, so right
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from being I don't know when I first went to school.
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I don't know what age I was, but I never
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had to do anything on my birthday until I started working.
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And then when I got to my twenties, I kind
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of decided I'm not working on my birthday. Anymore. So, Yeah,
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my first birthday recollection. Because I didn't know what my
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birthday was. I didn't know how old I was back then,
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so I guessed and I was probably about five. And
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I come downstairs. I'm late, must have slept in or something.
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I go into the canteen. Because the the Children's Home
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in Newcastle was a lot better than the Children's Home
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in South End where I ended up. It was it
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was just nicer though. The place was nicer as far
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as brighter and where we ate. It was like a
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conservatory thing and I don't know, it was just a
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nicer and it was all surrounded by fields and you
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know the play area, big play field with swings and stuff. Yeah. Anyway,
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I so I come down and I'm sitting at the
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table and someone says, oh, happy birthday. I said, okay,
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I had no idea it was my birthday. Neither did they.
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I mean obviously I did, because they just said happy birthday.
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And because I know I had that conversation with him.
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I said, how do you that's my birthday? And she
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said I didn't. I said, well, you just told me
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happy birthday. How can you say happy birthday if you
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didn't know it's my birthday. She said, well, I could
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just be making it up and I could say happy
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birthday to anyone at any time, you know. But I said,
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what are you you making up? And she said no,
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I'm not. I said, okay, well, how come how do
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you know it's my birthday? Then she said because your
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mom came around. I said really, I said, yeah, your
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mom turned up. I said, okay, where was she now?
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She didn't stop. Okay, she didn't stop, she did, why
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didn't you wake me up?
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Oh?
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She couldn't stop. Okay. So I said, okay, a lot
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back then, and I said all right, and she said
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then the lady said, well, she left you a present.
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I said, I really, and she gave it to me.
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It was a box of mare teesers, like one of
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the bigger boxes. And I love not what I love
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more teasers still do. So oh and that was it.
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That was my birthday, and that's her first birthday. I
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remember having really knowing what her birthday was. Now, the
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next time I had a birthday, I couldn't tell you.
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I mean, I know it was a year later, but
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I couldn't tell you. I don't remember a specific celebration
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of any particular birthday year, probably until I was eight,
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so I remember that birthday. So we'd been living we
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just moved into, not just moved in, but I hadn't
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been long. We've been living in this house, which was
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a new build on a council estate, which my nana
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Grande moved into as well. Once we moved out in
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I don't know, nineteen eighty eight or summer time. Yeah,
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just in time. Yeah, it's probably just in time for
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me to move into. We moved into new house and
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I started a new school in September. So yeah, that's it. Yeah,
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that's right. So the day before my eighth birthday, the
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twenty fifth, which is today, I don't even know how
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many years ago, forty something, forty three, No, forty seven
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years ago. So my little brother is now forty seven.
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He's getting old, an't he? So forty seven years ago
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today I was see in our house we had and
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I don't know why, and it's really it caused problems
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for my name as well. She fell down these steps
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that I fell down, and they put a ramp up
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in the end. My dad and whatever. It was ridiculous,
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like these big steps and each step was pretty much
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as high up up to my knee, and when I
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was only two inches tall at the time, but still
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big steps to get into the back door. And it's
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it's I think it's because the house was kind of
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on a bit of a slope and the ground hadn't
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settled yet, because it was on a new bit of land,
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well not on a new bit of land, and land's
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probably been there for millions of years, but depending on
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which book you read. And I I fell downstairs that
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my stepmom was heavily pregnant. I mean, the fact is
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she had a baby that day, so she must have
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been quite heavily pregnant. And she comes out to help me.