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Tue 07 Jul 2009'I'm not sure about the aubergine'
DISCOMFORT ZONE:Columnist JOHN WATERSbecomes a fashion correspondent for a day, joining 1,000 women – and three men – at the edge of the catwalk
SOME YEARS ago, a schoolfriend came back after decades on the foreign missions and, after we had talked for an hour, looked me in the eye and said he felt I was missing my destiny by a shade. After the initial irritation, it got me thinking. What might I be if not what I am? This idea soon became a liberation. I would gaze in the mirror into my Armada eyes and wonder if I might come from a long line of toreadors. I tried things out: maybe I should be a composer, an ice skater, a football manager . . . In such a mindset, I have fewer discomfort zones than once I might.
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