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S3, Ep6 How to Fail: James O'Brien

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Consciousness

I was very conscious growing up that I could have been born to my biological mother which would have been a single teenager in rural Ireland so it's highly unlikely I'd have been staying with her or if we were kept together it would have been under the auspices of some dreadful religious order. People who aren't adopted are always much more interested in adoption than people who are adopted. So I understand why people find it interesting because it is out of the ordinary. When you failed at an exam at school where your parents had all obviously saved money to send you to. Did you feel a particular sense then of failing them because of everything they done for you? Catholic school as well so guilt is in

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