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wmelon_kaiye:
wmelon_kaiye: 1. Who are you?
I'm... a teacher, a poet, a student of history and languages and culture. A sister, a friend. A few other things along the way. But yes, teacher's the definition I like best.
2. The person you admire/who inspires you the most?
My grandmother. Still and always, though she's been dead eight years.
3. Your favourite book of all time and why?
Ah, that's hard. So I'm going to twist the question slightly. My favourite book, as in a particular collection of paper and ink, rather than a particular work, is my Complete Oxford Shakespeare. Because I've owned it since I was seven, too young to understand even half of what there was to see, but I loved it anyway. Because it taught me things I'd never had the words for before. Because it was beautiful, and that particular book gave me the chance to know that before school could ruin it for me. Because it was the first poetry I remember reading. And many other reasons, but I think that's enough for now.
4. What do you see yourself doing in 20 years?
Oh, goodness. I don't know. I suppose the sensible answer is... I'd be 43, so hopefully I'd be a consultant in a hospital somewhere. But there are so many other things I'd like to do and places I'd like to be, so maybe I'll be lucky enough to be doing one of those instead.
5. If you had a secret that you could only tell to one person, who would that person be?
It depends on the secret, but the answer is probably no-one. I've had my secrets used against me too much to be comfortable trusting anyone with them right now. The only person I'd tell anything to is my sister, and she's my baby sister. I'm not about to tell her anything that'd worry or trouble her. So my secrets stay my own. I don't need even one other person to keep them for me just yet.
I'm... a teacher, a poet, a student of history and languages and culture. A sister, a friend. A few other things along the way. But yes, teacher's the definition I like best.
2. The person you admire/who inspires you the most?
My grandmother. Still and always, though she's been dead eight years.
3. Your favourite book of all time and why?
Ah, that's hard. So I'm going to twist the question slightly. My favourite book, as in a particular collection of paper and ink, rather than a particular work, is my Complete Oxford Shakespeare. Because I've owned it since I was seven, too young to understand even half of what there was to see, but I loved it anyway. Because it taught me things I'd never had the words for before. Because it was beautiful, and that particular book gave me the chance to know that before school could ruin it for me. Because it was the first poetry I remember reading. And many other reasons, but I think that's enough for now.
4. What do you see yourself doing in 20 years?
Oh, goodness. I don't know. I suppose the sensible answer is... I'd be 43, so hopefully I'd be a consultant in a hospital somewhere. But there are so many other things I'd like to do and places I'd like to be, so maybe I'll be lucky enough to be doing one of those instead.
5. If you had a secret that you could only tell to one person, who would that person be?
It depends on the secret, but the answer is probably no-one. I've had my secrets used against me too much to be comfortable trusting anyone with them right now. The only person I'd tell anything to is my sister, and she's my baby sister. I'm not about to tell her anything that'd worry or trouble her. So my secrets stay my own. I don't need even one other person to keep them for me just yet.
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