Irina
Watercolour. Irina was a Soviet ballerina student with me in the 1960s. She failed her course due to having funny shaped hands feet and arms and had to return to the Soviet Union. I passed with flying colours but decided I'd be happier driving a tractor on an aircraft carrier. I wasn't really.
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Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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