My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
“I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.”
“In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.”