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" There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails. "

Martin Compston

America

You

People

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Martin Compston

School

Growing Up

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