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Tanya Gold (born 31 December 1973) is a British journalist. She was educated at the independent Kingston Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford and has written for British newspapers including The Guardian, the Daily Mail,The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard, and also for the news magazine The Spectator. In 2009 she was highly commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the British Press Awards. In 2010 she won Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards and was also nominated for Columnist of the Year.
She has written articles exploring her recovery from alcoholism, and her undercover investigations into the television series Big Brother. She has also written a column about giving up smoking, "The Quitter".
In October 2008, she wrote an article for The Guardian about her alma mater: "Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state school kids – for its own good." She criticised Merton and Oxford University, for a culture she saw as privileged, stratified by socioeconomic status, and emotionally repressive.
Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is an English journalist who has worked for various publications and now writes for The Sunday Times.
Barber attended Lady Eleanor Holles School in south-west London. While she was studying for her A levels she had a two-year relationship with a significantly older man, whom she knew as Simon Goldman, but who also called himself Simon Prewalski. He was an associate of Peter Rachman, and he deceived both Barber and her parents. This affair subsequently provided the basis for a memoir by Barber and a film based on the memoir (see under Career below).
Barber read English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was briefly the girlfriend of the drug smuggler Howard Marks, but also met David Maurice Cloudesley Cardiff, whom she married in 1971. They had two daughters. Cardiff died in August 2003.
In 2010 listeners to Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 heard Barber say that she had slept with "probably 50 men" during two terms at Oxford: "It was quite good going. I was just jamming them in." she said.
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Look at the world so close
And I'm halfway to it
Look at it all so big
Do I even dare?
Look at me, there at last
I just have to do it
Should I?
Here I go
Just smell the grass, the dirt
Just like I dreamed they'd be
Just feel that summer breeze
The way it's calling me
For like the first time ever
I'm completely free
I could go running and racing
And dancing and chasing
And leaping and bounding
Hair flying, heart pounding
And splashing and reeling
And finally feeling