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I don’t even remember where I was when I turned seventeen. It might have been one of the years when I didn’t celebrate at all, simply because growing up was frustrating. There’s basically no difference between being sixteen and being seventeen, it’s just a very random gap of two years. You’re too young to be accepted as a proper grown-up and too old and self-important to have others making decisions for you.

Some people might call my mum a bad mum for letting me go at the age of seventeen. I don’t. It’s the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Being seventeen changed a lot for me and I don’t regret a single thing. To be honest, I try not to regret anything, as everything leads to something else which leads to another thing which wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

Anyway, I love this song by the amazing and fabulous Marina & The Diamonds.