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I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

The fact is that I loved being in England.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.