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A few words from Sue
Sue Papworth wrote a regular weekly humour column for the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, and also had a short slot called ‘Home Truths from Huddersfield’ on Radio Leeds for a while. Before that she did freelance work for magazines and radio.
Magazine work tended to include tongue-in-cheek material, for example mimicking the ‘Is he the boy for you?’ type quizzes found in teen magazines at the time.
Much more worldly wise, it would be more along the line of “Is he the boy for you, or would you be better off with a goldfish?’. It turns out, you usually were.
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