Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?
I am not proud of my roots, nor am I ashamed. I was a council house kid who left the village school at fifteen with practically no education and went to work in a factory office. I am working class and make no attempt to hide it, why should I?Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?
If our roots decided how successful we would be in life, then all our siblings would be on a par with us!Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?
My roots are somewhat like an impacted wisdom tooth, tangled. Half of them are French, that should make me popular with the French haters, half of them are English and I was brought up by a unmarried woman and her father, who loved me much more than my own parents and who was, and always will be, my mum.Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?
I'm like CeeCee I wouldn't say I was proud but I'm not ashamed either. I was brought up in a one parent family in inner city Leeds. Mum suffered badly with mental health issues so we often stayed with my gran who lived in a council house.Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?
When I was a child, I was convinced that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth but had to be "given away" because I had been conceived on the wrong side of the sheets - I had been told that my mother had been sent "elsewhere" and I was left on the steps of an orphanage at 3 days old, wrapped in a blanket .....
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