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When you look at me, you don’t see me. You know nothing. All you see is the bad stuff; the shouting, the swearing, the chucking stuff half-way across the classroom. All you can see is the bad boy, the classroom bully, the troublemaker. You don’t see me.

You don’t see where I came from. Raised by a dad that

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