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Pam Grout has asked me to write this, well not literally.\u00a0 I am following her book and we\u2019re at the week where I am suppose to start writing.\u00a0 So here it is.\u00a0 This is my first go at this…. or I probably could be truthful and say that I have been writing this in my head for years.\u00a0 As a child I loved writing short stories, and then I grew up and left that behind.\u00a0 My father always said that one day I would write a novel… mm I haven\u2019t got round to that … yet!\u00a0 I am rather shy I guess.\u00a0 This writing is personal and I\u2019m wary about talking about myself.\u00a0 I used to feel I was in the shadows peering round a corner, or behind a glass window.\u00a0 I would watch the others in my life and I would feel invisible.\u00a0 Invisible me.\u00a0 I remember writing a story when I was young, it was called \u201cFlat Susan\u201d and I could flatten myself and slide under doors.\u00a0 I think this was a metaphor for me, the me that felt invisible.\u00a0 If I flattened myself, then I was hidden and I was concealed.\u00a0 I think that was what it felt like for me.\u00a0 Flattened by life, flattened by myself, flattened by family, flattened by school and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today is different, today I am not flattened anymore. I have a voice and I am beginning to use it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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