Near Compass Road, the bulldozers had left weeks ago and the rubble of the block of flats had finally all been cleared away. It was starting to get a bit warmer and more kids were out and about after school now. There was never much to do on the estate and a lot of the…
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How I started smoking fags and still didn’t grow up fast .
“If I cannot smoke in heaven, than I shall not go,” Mark Twain. As a youth, I’d been quite the fervent anti-smoker. Neither of my parents smoked, although my mum used to before my old man, er, encouraged her to give up. At school, the hard, cool kids smoked in the traditional place –…