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JENNIFER PLATT | Dear diary, it’s been a while
Writing down your secrets comes with its trials and tribulations, but it’s worth remembering its priceless joys
10 November 2021 - 19:24
I started writing in a diary when I was about eight years old. My sister and I both got those cheesy ones with pastel flowers on the cover with a cutesy lock as a gift from my parents. I immediately set to writing all my secret thoughts in it. I still have it somewhere, stuffed into my old brown school case. (That suitcase was the bane of my schooling existence for many years — it was one of those awful huge things with dividers that looked like I was carrying a large accordion on my back. And it was indestructible. I tried.)..
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