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"Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer ..." — Geoff Dyer
Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.
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