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Why do my eyes look like nipples?

Jem Clarke is in his very, very early fifties, is five foot zero inches tall and has never left the family home in Cleethorpes, which he still shares with his parents...

‘It’s a shame there’s not a nicer word for nipples,’ my Great-Aunt Jessie once told me.

Jessie was known widely as ‘the donkey lady’. As a robust but very small teenager living a street away from the beach, I was often called on by her to road-test a troublesome donkey before she could designate it tourist-friendly. If I

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