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UnReidable Chapter 45 – November 1993: Edinburgh, Scotland
I had just turned 18 when I started out as a first year student at Edinburgh University in 1993. Reading my diaries at the time, I thought I had it all figured out. It’s apparent now, that I really didn’t. And it was that potent cocktail of overconfidence and cluelessness that fueled most of the […]
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UnReidable Chapter 46 – November 1996: Edinburgh, Scotland
There are only two entries in my journal from the last four months of 1996. One was written in September, and the other I wrote while sitting on a train 3 months later. The reason for the gap is partly explained by a sober decision I made in September to not be sober for a […]
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UnReidable Chapter 47 – November 2009: New York, New York
In early 2008, I was miserable with my job as a personal injury attorney in New York City. I was working long hours, and I was winning cases, but it never seemed to be enough to satisfy my boss at the time. I was 100% committed to the job, but every day my boss made sure to remind me how replaceable I […]
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UnReidable Chapter 48 – December 1990: Glasgow, Scotland
There was a lot going on in the world in 1990. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the first Gulf War was kicking off, and Maggie Thatcher was on the way out as Prime Minister. But as a 15-year-old adolescent boy, I was mostly focused on getting my first snog. The rest of the time I […]
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UnReidable Chapter 49 – December 2015: Austin, Texas
Dear Mum and Dad, Being a good parent is hard. Of course, you know that, but I’m still learning. As a young teenager, I mostly only saw you, my parents, as being the fun police. You were just old people that didn’t understand me. You were the undemocratically elected rulers of my life, and the […]
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UnReidable Chapter 50 – December 2016: Austin, Texas
In the end, there is only one place for me to finish – and that’s now. It has taken me just over a year to get here. A year of writing. A year of writing about me. I think I’ve said all I need to say. And I’m ready to move on. So this is […]