Thoughts on growing, loving and staying soft amid inevitable endings, written during a summer in Devon.

In short, I’ve glimpsed just what humans are capable of – pretty much anything, particularly when sex or money is involved. While I’m aware of the enormous privilege inherent in this kind of tiredness, the circuit inside my brain has literally been blown by the wonder of it all.

Far from becoming yesterday’s chip paper, the ripples of the piece seemed to only widen with time. My Instagram account was viewed by 29,000 people in a week. Six radio stations got in touch requesting interviews. 277 men slid into my DMs...

It wasn’t just the rental prices that pushed me out. The truth was that I felt burned up and burned out by my home city: its pressures, expectations, crowds and cruelty.