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My cultural awakening: a Pulp song made me realise I was in love with my best friend

I was too afraid to confess my feelings and be rejected, until hearing Jarvis Cocker’s words gave me a moment of clarity

He was a goth at the time, which I thought was very cool, and he had this fruity, posh voice – whereas I was a timid girl from south London with a terrible perm. / And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?” This sounds a bit daft, but lying in my bed at uni, I really felt like Jarvis was mapping out my destiny. I was so shy as a young woman, I really don’t think I would ever have had the courage to let down my wall and admit my feelings for Gordon if I hadn’t heard that song at that precise moment in my university bedroom.

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