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She was right to be worried. Frankly, to use late 1980s terminology, I was gagging for it. Like most teenagers, I was desperate to lose my virginity. However, I already had a lover that made me look pregnant but actually ensured that I would never, ever become a teenage pregnancy statistic: Food.

I’ll decide whether or not to go later

Well, I’ve felt really achy (probably angina not flu) so I wasn’t going to go to the party.

Harry, did you do that out of sympathy

Told her all about the weekend and she said Harry sounded like a wanker. I said, ‘OH MY GOD, WHY?’ She said, ‘He said he snogged you partly out of sympathy, Rae?? You don’t need some public schoolboy’s sympathy! You are one of the funniest, sweetest people I have ever known.’ I said, ‘He didn’t mean it like that,’ and she was like, ‘How did he mean it, then????’ I’m sure he didn’t. I love Mort

Psychologists can and do theorize about the reasons for Conan Doyle’s extreme persistence, his intensity, the way he worked so hard to convince people he was right in every argument, even, in later years, to the point of seemingly abasing himself in order to advance his claims for the paranormal. Was it all because of the depth of his shame, because, as at least one biographer speculates, “he was embarrassed by his

Both these factors had seemed to combine in the summer of 1878, when the nineteen-year-old Edinburgh undergraduate somehow found time between his medical studies and assistantships to write a long essay on “The intemperance of our country—the cause of its prevalence and the means of suppressing it,” which he submitted, anonymously, for a £5 prize contest.

Dreamland and Ghostland: an Original Collection of Tales and Warnings from the Borderland of Substance and Shadow

On June 22, 1894, Houdini married an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn girl named Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, or Bess, after knowing her about a week. A former seamstress, she had

On June 22, 1894, Houdini married an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn girl named Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, or Bess, after knowing her about a week. A former seamstress, she had