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The Physiotherapist

Age: 36 | Location: London, UK If you spot a woman with a wide smile and curly hair headed to the gym in a North Face co-ord, waffle...

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I'm Ceci. The person behind the profiles. I'm a writer and journalist with

a particular passion for telling true stories. My favourite film? The Big Short. My favourite book? The Year of Magical Thinking. My favourite column? Relative Values in The Sunday Times. It's my mission to prove that what real people do with their real lives is so much more interesting than anything that anyone could make up.

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The Archetypes is an interview series in which ordinary people answer fifty questions about the intimacies of their everyday lives. There are no names and no photos: each Archetype is just a real person and their true story.