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And when she wrote the book she took as a starting point,
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her point of disagreement,
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a famous poem by the poet Philip Larkin
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and many of you have probably heard this.
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The poem goes like this:
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
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They may not mean to but they do.
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They fill you with the faults they had
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And add some extra just for you.
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The last line of the poem, the last bit of the poem, ends:
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"Man hands on misery to man.
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It deepens like a coastal shelf.