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26 June 2008updated 27 Sep 2015 2:59am

The handbag of God

When homeless people seem lazy, sleep seems a waste of time and sex even more so, you're ready to pl

By Andrea Riseborough

Thatcher left a provocative taste on the nation’s tongue both politically and domestically, whether it be the stale emptiness of hunger, or of the now soured cream atop a Black Forest gateau bought with new money . . . Yes, the handbag of God touched us all.

As my right foot reached the tarmac of the parking lot outside Great Meadow Productions, June 2007, and my left remained gripped to the carpet of an old black cab, I attempted to steady myself in pre paration for as graceful a descent as one can muster with three backpacks, six scripts and a satchel full of episodes of the former Yugoslavian hit TV series Tesna koza.

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