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S6, Ep5 How to Fail: Shirlie Kemp

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Trauma of a Chaotic Childhood

My parents didn't have a happy marriage. My dad was quite an angry man and I think he suffered depression, but it was never diagnosed. He would literally knock furniture over you and hear things smashing. So that on top of school life was really hard. It was just chaos. Everything I'm not now. You know, my home now is so quiet calm, no arguing. But then I think what happened was because the boys had been open to this father who was obviously this big aggressive man. They were kind of copying him. So they would fight with each other. We will come back to the horses,. but it's so interesting hearing how much of a refuge it must have been

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