
Ian McEwan
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
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The Awkwardness of a Boarding School
You write in really affectionately deeply affectionate terms about your boarding school, ecsperinces. The it is rare. It was not a private school. There were 303 hundred nd 20 of us. We had wast lent hair. None of that was a problem for themd. So their first instinct was total hospitality, but the second was to keep up a certainmotyrdom of appearance. Ie ve written one myself about the awfulness of boarding schools and the damage that it did to our young minds and, in many cases, our young bodies. That's not what you ner took away from your experience.
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