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S3 Lemn Sissay: ‘I only knew the importance of family by not having it’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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What Makes Family Right?

"Things going wrong is actually part of what makes family right," says the poet. "We work through our problems, we hide things and form packs around memories that we don't want to explore" As a child there was not one person to protect as a child who was a family member of mine because there was nobody. I knew about that bond before I could articulate it, but I knew that my friends at 18 didn't realize what it was that they had and neither should they. No parent wants their child to realize how important family is because to do that, they would have to have it taken away.

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