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EXTRACT: Aw he’s a bit of a shit, he’s a shit dad, shit guy. I don’t think he wanted kids, or he did and then he lost interest. I dunno. He’s an alcoholic, which I thought would affect me, but like, it affected me more than I thought it would. Like – and stop me when I’m boring – but only recently I pegged down like, I didn’t know why I felt shame more deeply than most people, which is a thing I do, which is like a thing I do that I worked out from just like, talking to my mates. Like I just feel guilt and shame a lot more than a lotta people. And I worked out, through like, just meditating on it, that like, yeah, because a lot of the time when my dad would be disciplining me and my sister, he’d be drunk, yeah? Which we didn’t know.