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actually, she said she would give me some money and when we got to school she completely forgot her purse. She doesn’t really think, she’s really intelligent and clever but she kind of like failed her GCSE’s. Alex with Hilary’s voice Alex is a very, very loving boy and very bright and very caring really. However he can have terrible fits of temper and if he gets jealous or a fit of low self-esteem it comes out in violent ways towards me and 58 abusive too. Hilary with Alex’s voice I love my mother but she can be annoying, she’s a loving person, I think she cares a lot about us. But she, well she rows with my dad. In two ways, in a lot of ways my dad’s got better, got better ways of doing things than her but in a way she’s got like, he’s not very good at cooking but she is. But she’s not good at handling arguments. She’s just you kwon a very dramatic woman. It’s like a Laurence Olivier play, I cant’s go on and things like that, I’ll threaten to ring the police, I think she blackmails us a lot. Laurence with Hilary’s voice Laurence is absolutely adorable and I just love every inch of him. I think he’s good looking, I think he is beautiful looking, gorgeous face, very clever, very bright and funny and very alive. I think he’s brilliant. But he’s got a terrible temper and he can be a real bugger at times. ‘Oh’ he says, ‘my teeth are yellow, I’m old and ugly and I never finish anything’- I say, ‘I’m going to do it and I don’t’, he has a way of putting his finger on the truth. ‘Oh yes’ he says, ‘I am a failure’, he says, ‘I am a failure’, which has hurt because I think of myself as a failure. Hilary with Laurence’s voice I don’t like the way she dresses to my school, she doesn’t try very hard, she doesn’t look very good and she goes to stupid clubs which aren’t kind of really necessary. She doesn’t dress too young, but sometimes she looks at things in the shop which are really too young. I think she thinks too much of herself. I think she is afraid of getting old in a way. Alex with Hilary’s voice I think having children brings out two very, very extreme emotions in us which is that one’s constantly faced with the border of love and hate. Love is the usual the major emotion but at times you do really feel hate, hate towards them. Hilary with Alex’s voice I’m not horrible, I stand up for my rights a bit more then my mum, she’s a bit kind to people. I think children should have the right to be rude back to grown-ups, so whenever someone’s rude to me –a grown-up– I don’t think they should get away with it. Alex with Hilary’s voice Well I think I am someone who likes to be dominated as all the men I’ve had are quite dominating to me so there must be something in that, that I do like it.


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