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    LETTER TO MY YOUNGER SELF vendor special

    Sep 27, 2021 3 minutes

    Maria Cirpaciu, 24

    M&S, Morningside, Edinburgh

    Work hard to support your family. You will move to Scotland when you’re 18 for work and it will be great. The Big Issue will help you be part of a community and you will meet nice friends in Morningside.

    Mary Daly, 47

    opposite WH Smith, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

    At 16 I left foster case, so I’d say to the young Mary: don’t mess with the wrong people because things will end up going wrong. Then later on if people see you selling The Big Issue and tell you to get a job you should just ask them what they think you’re doing. But I’d also tell

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