# 12 Depression by Dan Pearce
Barrow-in-Furness
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9. SEPARATION
David re-modeled the gardens. The house is beautiful, unrecognisable. A new beginning, photo Margaret Yip by MARGARET YIP It is 1984 – four of my children are in their teens. Suzanne is eighteen; Linda is 17. Suzanne is a receptionist at a local hotel. Linda is in college doing a…
Comics
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HOW DONALD DUCK SAVED MY LIFE…probably
COMICS – THE SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT By Paul Halas To this day there’s still an intellectual snobbery about comics in the UK, which is a shame as no other medium can communicate so well with so much economy. On mainland Europe, in the USA, in countries throughout Asia, comics…
Alcohol addiction
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The High Wire Paradox of Alcohol Consumption
“Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it pledged the dead man.” Illustration for “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1927 Illustration Joseph Sullivan by Richard Steinhardt Alcohol is a great enhancer and destroyer of…