A moment that changed me: I was always a pushover – until I stood up to some teenagers

On the eve of my 40th birthday, I was doused with cold water at a train station. Before, I would have shrugged it off. But suddenly I realised it was time to assert myself It was the evening before my 40th birthday – a freezing cold night in March – and I was travelling across…

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