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01 Life Memories

13:03.2 I see several things… there’s this white picket fence and… there’s the house. A London townhouse, maybe… bought… if you’ve made it in life, why not buy?… If you buy a property in London it’s going to be [making exploding noise]… so I’ll put a little pounds into there…

And then… maybe a family?… I probably won’t have children of my own… But I know I’ll have my sister’s children… in my life quite a lot… Maybe marriage to another guy… I think everything else is kind of materialistic… I think I would like to have had my own [children] but you would have to find the person to do that and, I suppose, in the gay world it’s kind of a lot harder… I think family’s a big part of it… The material things, yeah, they’re great [but] if my house went up in flames… the first thing I’d always worry about is…documentation…so I’m still alive according to the government.

17:15.1 Photos [are] one thing I love taking, and I think it comes from my mother… when she was eighteen… her brother died in a car accident… She had a massive argument with him before and she said… ‘Will you just get out of my life?’ and then he actually did… Yeah, I want things. I’m human… But…the camera… memories… I think that’s one thing I always try to create and… I love taking photos.

20:32.2 And… life and death… meaning that I’d want to do everything before I did ever go and hopefully I wasn’t a massive [unclear] to everyone. So that’s the main thing… and also just the reality of life…We wasn’t hidden away from things like death… My mother wasn’t like, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t go to a funeral. You should be at home.’ She was like, ‘You’re going.’… We’ve seen that world and it’s not pretty, of course it’s not – it’s death and everyone’s scared of it… I think that’s a problem with this society. You can’t talk about things like that.