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Saoirse De Búrca

Oct 23, 2026

7:14
How was school for you then?
7:16
I actually loved school, even though I was never a good student.
7:20
I was the class clown and I had great friends and loved all of that.
7:25
And the teachers liked me, even though I did no work, you know, very little work for them.
7:31
But again, because of the alcoholism and the lack of support at home, We wouldn't have the right books, we wouldn't have the right uniform.
7:38
I might have my sister's uniform who is six years older than me and there'd be cigarette holes in it and whatever else.
7:45
So you're trying to be this good little first year and you already look like a tearaway, hair not brushed, no breakfast in the morning, no lunch, arriving late to school because we lived three miles from the school.

8 MINS LATER

15:55
Can you tell everyone about that? So

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