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    Joy of being a has-been

    Jul 26, 2023 2 minutes

    I am a ‘has-been’, a ‘former this’, an ‘ex-that’ and a ‘past everything’.

    Although my children never believed I was anything other than an embarrassment, there was a time when I was quite a big fish in a small pond, with some influence in larger lakes. I was a GP and senior partner in a Portsmouth

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