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Julie Burchill

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into

Julie Burchill

Teen

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When she was a teenager, Julie Burchill admired Graham Greene and hoped to follow his path. Although she didn't achieve his literary success or adopt his religion, she did eventually live by the sea in middle age, just like he did.

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