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TALKING TABOOS is a series of five true story monologues of trauma and recovery and of living in a society where we feel restricted to speak.

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…and I remember for some reason thinking toad in the hole - he’s going to go home tonight and eat toad in the hole with his kids. Yet he’s risked his life, to get me to my dead child. ​

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After twenty-five years married, I came home from a long business trip to find she’d packed up the house, and had been planning to leave… I saw then how she had manipulated me, and how I had been pushed around…​

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It’s terrifying that the one thing I want more than anything else in this world is so fragile… Even if I sat and talked to my closest friends, I don’t feel it’s something you can be really brutally honest about. ​

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I took him down the pub, we got pissed on our lunch break and talked about death. It was great. He was grateful. ​

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First you don’t say anything and then you do and people don’t believe you… The stories I’ve got… not many people have heard them.