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My Story 11: The difference if you marry a Jewish Princess

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Jeremy Pfeffer  Consultant Psychiatrist [retired]  Specialised in; depression, stress anxiety … For two years, covering my 40th birthday, I would climb into my car 0730 every Wednesday and drive; home was 302 Liverpool road, Islington, London, reverse into the road, right turn, Offord Road, HMP Pentonville with high brick walls to my right, turn left into Caledonian road, a hump in the road as I cross the Regents canal, past the massage parlour (that's for later), swing right into the Kings Cross one way system and onto Euston road. Kings Cross, St Pancreas - in its Gothic revival splendour - stations to my right. On my left, many university and public buildings - the very exam rooms I inhabited five years earlier - as both sides of my gaze merge into the underpass by Euston Square tube station, I emerge to see Great Portland Street station on my left, Regents Park to my right, Regent Street on my left with its classical Regency façade leading south towards Oxford Street. I am on M