I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as

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I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving. ✨ This much I know by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.
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I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving. ✨ This much I know by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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