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The 69-year-old opens up about his mother’s two sides, his first wife, and the double standard around ageing for men and women
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“I’ve heard men complain about the women in their lives as the reason they’ve been married more than once, when 50 per cent or more of the reason is us, the men.”Yaris, was born in Odesa in Ukraine. Her father was killed in the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1905, but along with the rest of her family, she escaped to Glasgow via the Black Sea. They arrived in the city’s slum area, but by the time I was a little boy my grandparents were middle class.
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