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Calmcarl's avatar

Hello Sam, I was guided here by my friend, Christine, who has seen a project I made and thought you'd like it. Having read this piece and a couple of others, I can see why! 'Normal' is what she said you were and how you spoke on your podcast and wrote was also normal. It is normal to feel, but talk about having feelings of insecurity, fear, sadness with our mates, not so much. It's lovely to hear a n other man talk openly about love and failings. Cheers!

I don't want to just stick a link on your page on first meeting but I would like to share the things I've created with you and something that is pertinent to this page in particular. Do you answer direct messages on Twitter or is there a contact email I could send a link to?

Your blog and what I've seen so far has made me feel a little bit prouder of being the man I am and has also pushed me to being more focussed on my recovery.

I look forward to sneaking peaks into your journey on this planet.

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Carl

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Mike ’nice to see you’ Goodill's avatar

Another top notch article Sam - being abusive to your mates was always was a form affection in the olden days - one thing about my children’s generation is that they are more ‘woke’ - social and emotional aspects of learning is integrated into pretty much all schools now - I was on the committee for schools around Rochdale implementing measures back in the early 00s - the only thing that worries me is that a lot of teens now are well aware of but find it hard to express emotional language face to face as so much of their social interactions come from technology- there needs to be a balance somewhere between our generational comradely and the new age wokeness

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