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7 January 2023

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Hanif Kureishi
Jan 07, 2023
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Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my family. If you could become a paid subscriber and support me, it’d mean so much.

I wasn’t a happy child but I wasn’t an unhappy child either. Once I could read I was free. I could go to libraries every day, often accompanied by my mother, and I saw reading as a way out from my immediate surroundings.

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