Word: clubfooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing by the fact that my parents felt guilty about it," he says. "That made me feel as if I had done something wrong. Years...