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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I needed to run away in order to come home.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

I've always believed in survival.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.