An old friend asked me if I’d write something personal, something from my past as she thought it would equal anything I write as fiction. I’ve always held back from that, for all manner of reasons, and when I wrote this piece I realised the difference between writing fact and fiction: Writing a true story [...]
Jake Barton – ramblings of a deluded soul.
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