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MY PITCH MARY DALY, 45

I’m a very anxious person. People think I must have confidence but I don’t

. I stopped doing it and, what can I say, I’ve started doing it again. I spent about 15 years on the streets, just travelling around Brighton, Bournemouth, Poole, Cambridge… To be honest I was in a bad way with drink and drugs. I

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