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My Lost Boy

When my son Jack was a small boy, I carried him on my shoulders - and I carried him in my heart - everywhere I went.

But then the small boy became the troubled teenager and the troubled teenager became the tragic young man: Jack killed himself in 2015, aged 29.

What happened? Life happened. Somewhere between his teens and his twenties, Jack (my son with my ex-wife, writer Julie Burchill) became one of those Lost Boys who get stuck in a life-long adolescence. They never grow up, preferring

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