MY COUNTRYSIDE CHILDHOOD
May 24, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: KIM WILLIS.
Look at that photo of me giggling in the surf, smiling in the sunshine yet bracing myself as the cold water laps my legs. I remember the moment so well. I was seven years old and visiting my maternal grandparents, who had recently moved to Devon. I was happy there – yet, simultaneously, never felt I belonged in rural Britain.
‘AS A CHILD, I NEVER FELT COMPLETELY EQUAL’
My dad is from Ghana, my mum is from Reading. They met when a friend of my mum’s set up a dating agency and Mum agreed to go on a few dates. My dad proposed on the fourth date and after my
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