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    Free at last?

    Jul 28, 2022 3 minutes

    • BRITNEY SPEARS DOESN’T WANT your pity. Since November last year, the pop star has been a free woman — released from the conservatorship through which her father had governed her life since 2008, when a California court deemed her incompetent. Abruptly, at the age of 39, she was given the right to have an adult life: to control her own money, go where she wished, see who she wanted, to marry her fiancé (which she did, this year).

    The narrative demands that this be a splendid, celebratory year traumatised.

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