An American friend once told me I was too modest.
This would have astounded my parents – and all who knew and loathed me in the pub I was brought up in. I was seen as at best precocious and certainly a conceited little twerp.
Those were the days when children were seen and not heard, but I was a little motor-mouth with a firm and generally ill-informed opinion about everything.
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….and that’s why intelligent people love you now!